Banded Darters on Fire

Hi Guys,

Here's another from my tour around Holland with fellow UKNP member Barry Southon this weekend. I took him to a lot of places from my Roe Deer sites to Spoonbills and from the recently posted Buzzard to Snipe etc etc.

Yesterday however we went over to my favorite place to photograph Banded Darters wich is a very scarse type of Dragonfly for The Netherlands and as we got there around 06.00 o'clock the sun was just about to rise and we where able to get a nice series of backlit shots.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark3
Shutter speed: 1/200 sec
Aperture: F 8
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 1 1/3
Flash:yes: Canon MT 24EX with custom made raiser & Gary Fong Puffer Diffusers
Flash exposure compensation: -1 2/3
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 200
Lens: Canon 200mm F2.8 + 20mm Macro ext. tubes
Focal length:
AF mode: Manual Focus
On tripod an Wimberley Head
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/My own mix-Sharpening
Bibble Pro / Adobe Photoshop CS5

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Hi a great looking image Jeroen.

Phil.

Very artistic indeed and eye-catching indeed.

Beautiful Jeroen,

Colours and tones are perfect.

Cheers

Austin

Superb lighting and subjects. Some how the two don,t sit well in the frame for me- maybe the right one too near the frame edge ? Not sure. Still nice though.
JohnR

Hi Jeroen,

I think the composition works perfectly, this really is a superb image IMO with sublime lighting and a super BG. No nits from me.

Andy...

Composition works well for me. Wonderfull shot.

Amazing compositon Jeroen,beautiful colours making a stunning and very different image

Hi Jeroen

I really like the idea and the subjects are beautifully shot, but I dont like them both together as they are too far apart and they compete for attention

I think they would make two excelllent shots.

Superb shot all round,

Dale

Works for me Jeroen, great capture!

Regards,

Des

Works for me as well. Fabulous light. Excellent.

The light here is really intense and you did well to get 2 together like this.
Either one would have made a great subject on their own, no doubt you have some of those too?
Well done.

Geoff.

I'm with the two seperate shot brigade Jeroen,still very nice image thou

Beautiful lighting Jeroen but I would also prefer just one on its own.

Excellent, a very strong image!

Thanks for your comments so far guys!
I have dozens of shots of these including several with only one Banded Darter in the frame so i will post one of those later on.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Interesting shot, certainly grabs your attention. The light looks amazing and to have two together...great!

Ian

Only just seen this Jeroen - stunning image for me matey