Hi Maggie , I have yet to venture into the world of macro..Nice capture. shows the wings and eyes up very well, I dont know the situation of shooting this DF, ie , was it active and resting, or was it early in the morning. if possible i would have tried to move the RH grass blade out of the way. although i can appriciate how difficult it must be to photograph insects.
perhaps a tad more sharpening .
Hi Maggie, like the idea, been playing with it myself on dragons and damsels, but this seems a bit cluttered, few to many leaves etc. I think for this shot to work it has to be a clean background and absolutely head on from a slightly low viewpoint, not that I have managed any of that yet!! This shot is close to it, well done
Posted by Barry Southon on June 20, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Maggie
You're efforts produce shots way ahead of my standard, I've been trying to get head on shots for a change and also flight shots but buggers aren't coperating they seem to be hyper active.
They are on a mission and little time.
Nice as is.
Posted by David Taylor on June 20, 2010 at 1:07 PM
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perhaps a tad more sharpening .
Mark.G
You're efforts produce shots way ahead of my standard, I've been trying to get head on shots for a change and also flight shots but buggers aren't coperating they seem to be hyper active.
They are on a mission and little time.
Nice as is.
thats what you and Kato were shooting was it ?
Good shot nice and sharp
The pruning brigade will be after you though