Borown hawker ovipositing

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod Canon 7D Canon 180mm macro & 1.4TC 1 ISO 500 +0.3 1/640 sec f11
Taken on the garden pond, unfortunately I was unable to get a lateral view, but it illustrates a little behaviour.
(Ooops I spotted the title misspelling but I don't know how to correct it!)
All C&C welcome.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Jon. This is not that easy of a shot to get - you did an excellent job with the sharpness and DOF on the dragonfly and I like the soft light - I would only wish that we could see the abdomen a little better as that would put this one over the top. You might consider removing the OOF underwater stem in the ULC and removing the two clipped dark green objects in the LRC as they tend to draw my eye away from your cool subject. Maybe also tone down the bright area in the LLC. Just a few tweaks to clean up the edges - I don't think these would take away from the feeling that this was shot "in the wild."

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thread is now open!