Dragonfly

[Christopher Miller]

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The first dragonfly I've photographed this year. Dragonflies are one of my favorite insects to photograph, partly because they tend to be willing to sit still :)! This one was sitting on the wall of one of our goat sheds. Any C&C are welcome!

Olympus SP-550 UZ
f4.5 @ 1/50, ISO 100
Aperture priority, pattern metering, sunny WB
Processed in PS CS2; cropped, curves adjustment, slight saturation increase, shadow/highlight, some noise reduction, and cloned out a few spots on its eye

[Julie Kenward]

Nice one, Christopher! Wow...the detail in the face is incredible! What is killing me is the fact that he looks like he's sleeping...so cool.

Love the selective DOF. I do wish the BG was all board but that's a minor thing. I think you did a great job on this one!

[Alfred Forns]

Love the sharpness and quality Chris I'm impressed !!!

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks Julie and Al for your comments!

Julie, I agree with you on the BG, but I don't think he would have allowed me to move him :).

[Dave Phillips]

Interesting how apparent the dof line is across the board.
This would be a great teaching image