I went first thing to look for these emerging from our small pond (1 x 2.5m), as I found one exuvia and unfortunately the drowned broad bodied chaser that had not moved far enough from the water and not chosen a good piece of vegetation (clover). I found nothing first thing- I must not have been looking closely.
When I was leaving for work (with no time to do them justice), I found three broad bodied chasers next to their exuviae, and four other exuvia. This was the only one that was accessible. We have also had around 25 (mostly large red) damselflies emerge in the last week.
Know that feeling all too well, I must have walked past them emerging many a time only to find them as you have...
Its a nice freshly emerged BBC but I feel that the bg is competing a little, given it is a stack I think you could have opened up to f3.5/4 which might have cleaned it up for you. Well seen and as I enjoy these very much a pleasure to view.
Posted by David Taylor on June 30, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Great job with the stacking. I agree with Phil about the BG and the remedy.
A great NH image and well seen and taken. Following the advice already given will provide you with a really nice image indeed. All the detail is there.
Thanks for the replies. Funnily enough, I did a sequence at F/3.5 before this one, but there was a lot more grass and plantain stems. I then did some gardening, and re-took the stack, thinking I could get away with a smaller aperture. I do agree the background is busy.
One more of these crawled out this morning, but it was dead by the time I came out at 6:30am. When I arrived it was being eaten by a wasp. By 8:30 there was nothing left but the wings :(
I took a not-that-brilliant time-lapse of an unidentified species of damselfly emerging, you can watch it here:
Notice the other one emerging on the left of the frame towards the end. I should have re-focused a little and kept the timer going to get the second one extending its wings.
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7 repliesWhen I was leaving for work (with no time to do them justice), I found three broad bodied chasers next to their exuviae, and four other exuvia. This was the only one that was accessible. We have also had around 25 (mostly large red) damselflies emerge in the last week.
eight frames stacked
D200
90mm f/2.8 macro at f/8
1/60 sec, mirror lock-up
tripod, cable release
Know that feeling all too well, I must have walked past them emerging many a time only to find them as you have...
Its a nice freshly emerged BBC but I feel that the bg is competing a little, given it is a stack I think you could have opened up to f3.5/4 which might have cleaned it up for you. Well seen and as I enjoy these very much a pleasure to view.
Brett
One more of these crawled out this morning, but it was dead by the time I came out at 6:30am. When I arrived it was being eaten by a wasp. By 8:30 there was nothing left but the wings :(
I took a not-that-brilliant time-lapse of an unidentified species of damselfly emerging, you can watch it here:
720p version (10MB)
1080p version (22MB)
Notice the other one emerging on the left of the frame towards the end. I should have re-focused a little and kept the timer going to get the second one extending its wings.
Fran