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Excellent details, including those fine hairs on the head and thorax! And that brilliant red color is...brilliant! The few front facing OOF petals of the flower are a bit distracting but also unavoidable. Lovely soft mottled bkgd.
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Wow! I've never seen a red damselfly before. Very nice sharpness on your subject plus good lighting and background. The diagonal stem is a plus. I would wish that the flower wasn't clipped by the top of the frame - otherwise this is very well done!
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Thanks very much everyone. Steve yes the flower was a bit of a bummer really, I wanted to get it all in but by the time I had taken off the TC the little devil had flown off!
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Well spotted Jon, those colors are really nice. I'd be inclined to crop out the flower head from the top right corner and just fill the frame with the damselfly. Should be possible with the IQ of this image. It's a pity you didn't get the tip of the tail in focus. You really have to watch your shooting angle with these long critters, their back ends tend to stick out of the plane of focus all too easy! I've had the same problem with damselfly images and found that you can fool the eye a bit by selectively applying sharpening just to the tip of the tail.
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Originally Posted by
Jerry van Dijk
Well spotted Jon, those colors are really nice. I'd be inclined to crop out the flower head from the top right corner and just fill the frame with the damselfly. Should be possible with the IQ of this image. It's a pity you didn't get the tip of the tail in focus. You really have to watch your shooting angle with these long critters, their back ends tend to stick out of the plane of focus all too easy! I've had the same problem with damselfly images and found that you can fool the eye a bit by selectively applying sharpening just to the tip of the tail.
Thanks Jerry I do sometimes do that - also I find if you use the Burn tool on the dark tip it also helps.
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