Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly

[Carel v/d Sanden]

Ischnura pumilio

Female. A very young specimen.
Of a species is described as rare in the Netherlands.

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D
Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/40
Av( Aperture Value ) 11.0
Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
ISO Speed 200
Lens EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
White Balance Mode Cloudy

http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/5734873/1024/Birdshoot/IMG-2815-tengere-grasjuffer.jpg (http://nl.picturepush.com/public/5734873)

[Chris Ober]

Very nice, very clean, good details. A few too many hightlights for me. I love these guys.

[bhavya joshi]

Great shot.. carel.. I like the white spots or highlights on wings.. looking different..:c3:

[OvidiuCavasdan]

Nice pose and well composed, godd sharpness and details. I like the perch and BG. Not easy to shot these with a nice clean BG.

[Allen Sparks]

I like the details and diagonals in this shot. nice BG too. well done.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Carel. Nice pose, DOF, comp, and background. All the specular highlights on the wings are somewhat distracting as they draw my eye - but there's not much you can do about them. A slightly different shooting angle in the field might help, but it could also detract from your head-to-tail sharpness. The little hairs around the head and thorax have an oversharpened look to my eye - you might try some different sharpening settings to see if they help. :S3:

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Carel,
Besides the suggestions by Steve above.....I might go for a touch more light on the body and eye. All in all easy tweaks to a very well composed image!

[Mitch Haimov]

Very nice, Carel. I can't really add anything to what has been said above. TFS.