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Macro and Flora Moderator
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Another cool flight shot, Jon - you nailed the focus on the head! On the picky side - the background has enough different colors that it becomes distracting. You might consider toning down the brighter colors with some low-opacity cloning. A tighter crop might also help to focus our eye more on the dragonfly.
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Well the focus is dead on. The background is what it is. But still sure a challenge to get one of these.
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Steve I agree the background isn't perfect but I am trying to produce images in keeping with FIAP, so cloning is something I am trying to avoid, I suppose blending is an alternative but I suspect this also regarded as cheating so I left the background as it was.
Thanks Steve & John, there are several ways to get these guys in flight. One of the simplest is to pick on a species that returns to a favourite perch, darters tend to do this, I think you call yours chasers? I think this is probably the easiest way:
Note where it perches, manually focus that point or just beyond it, wait till it flies and upon its return hit the shutter so hopefully it comes through the plane of focus as it lands, and voila!
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Another great flight image. Love the head-on perspective with focus right on. Challenging to say the least to get these in flight.
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Excellent capture in a very challenging situation for sure!
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