Dragonfly Up close

[Bob Miller]

Took this at a local lake last summer
D-300
1/320 sec at f5
ISo 640
180 macro with 1.4 Tc
Comments welcome!

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hi Bob, you have the subject and flower nicely isolated. I am a little hesitant regarding the image, the colours appear to be rather strange there appears to be a cyan cast, I am not sure what is going on. Did you process the image differently to your usual regime?

[Jerry van Dijk]

Wonderful pose of the dragonfly and a very lovely perch. The sharpness and DOF are excellent, the dragonfly seems sharp from head to toe. Indeed there seems to be a bluish cast, although it is difficult to pinpoint because there is a lot of blue in the image to begin with. I guess I'd warm up the colors slightly by a WB adjustment.

[Bob Miller]

Jon....Thanks again for your help ...I will definetely work on these colors as they are over saturated and I see what you mean by the cyan cast

[Jonathan Ashton]

Jon....Thanks again for your help ...I will definetely work on these colors as they are over saturated and I see what you mean by the cyan cast

You are welcome Bob, anytime.

[Faraaz Abdool]

Beautiful composition here, I think everyone has already nailed all the key points of this image!

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely pose and composition and nice and sharp. Good comments about the colors.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Bob. This dragonfly (looks like a Blue Dasher) gave you a nice pose on a colorful perch and against a clean background. I would agree about the perception of a blueish color cast (should be easy to adjust) and I'd be tempted to crop a little from the left. A couple tweaks and you have a winner!