Flag-tailed Spinyleg Dragonfly

[Allen Sparks]

Canon 7D, 300 f4 IS, 1.4x TC, 580 EX II Speedlite ........ ISO 400, f14, 1/250s, fill flash, HH

[christopher galeski]

nice dragonfly,good BG,like those eyes.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot Allen, very clean and almost perfect focus, the tail is just a fraction out. Have you tried using a faster ISO with fill in flash at higher shutter speeds? The batteries don't last so long but the faster shutter speed and good DOF along with a ETTR (expose to the right), would mean there would still be very little noise - just a thought. On my flash gun (old 550) you press the + and - simultaneously to get high speed sync.

[Mitch Haimov]

Very clean image, Allan. The way it's perched reminds me of a gawky teenager. But why do they call it "spinyleg"? :bg3: