Damselfly

[Markus Jais]

Damselfly (I have not yet identified the species, those little blue ones are not easy).
Kissinger Heide, near Augsburg (Germany)

EOS 40D, EF 3.5/180L, Tripod
1/160, f6.3, ISO 200

Lightroom 2:
Clarity: +43
Vibrance: +10
Sharpening Amount: 70
Standard Sharpening for Screen Export
About 90% crop

I was planing to photography flowers and at first only wanted to take the 2.8/100 with me. Good that I changed my mind and took the 3.5/180 with me, too. It would have been a lot more difficult to approach them with a 100mm lens. This would also have ment to leave the trail which I don't do in that place as it would damage a lot of endangered flowers.
I love the 3.5/180L. This is one of Canon's sharpest lenses.

Hope you like it

Markus

[Tell Dickinson]

Looks like a Common Blue to me Markus ? Nice image, lovely bg and I really like that you can see all the hairs around the head and body :)

Tell

[Julie Kenward]

Perfect comp and DOF. I do think it could stand a tweak of more contrast - it feels just a tad flat to me. Also, and this is so minor, I'd take the one partial leaf out at the very bottom just to the right of the stem.

[Christopher Miller]

Nice angle and sharpness on the damselfly, Markus! Nice clean BG too. Agree it could use a touch more contrast. Congrats on getting a good image of one of these buggers, I've frequently photographed these and I always have a ton of trouble getting a good image :)

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice diagonal composition very sharp and clean BG. What's not to like?

[Steve Maxson]

Very nicely done, Markus. Good sharpness, comp, and background. I like it as presented.