This Damselfly waits for the first rays of sunlight to kick-start its metabolism.
Canon EOS 5, Canon 100mm macro, ISO 100, Natural light - early morning, 2 secs F16, Tripod.
This Damselfly waits for the first rays of sunlight to kick-start its metabolism.
Canon EOS 5, Canon 100mm macro, ISO 100, Natural light - early morning, 2 secs F16, Tripod.
Last edited by John Cooper; 02-12-2008 at 05:29 AM.
Very cool and I like the composition.
I am wondering about the darker BG above the DF. Distracting? I am not sure. It does frame him nicely.
Perch is great and nice study itself.
excellent capture - perfect dof, great exposure, fantastic detail - the bg doesn't bother me in the least and I love the diagonal the body forms in the frame - very nicely done indeed!!
Hi
A smashing shot of this lovely fellow, with all of that dew around the head area it is almost like he is wearing a cap
The only real suggestion I have is perhaps because you have paralleled this subject so nicely, you might have be able to open up a bit more to increase the background blur, without overly effected the sharp look of this pretty subject.
But this is minor, and probably an option you explored already - and certainly one highly entertaining view
All the best
Matthew

Very nice. The perch alone makes quite a nice subject and then add the real subject for WOW.
I take it the key to these type images is to get to them before they are warm enough to fly away? I'll have to try that soon.
Hey John, awesome image, beautiful details, colors, and comp. I think Matthew makes a good point with opening up as the plane of the subject looks pretty flat, and would have help softening the BG. Great work as usual.
Yes hear what you are saying Robert, I have played around with the BG a few times cloning out the dark corner. But i wanted to retain the OOF reed appearence and I wasn't clever enogh to achieve this with my cloning technique - so kept coming back to the original.
Love the subject positioning and the details, superb, it has a metallic quality.
What is the Sp? I looks like a helicopter compared to the little red d-fly I posted.
Robert
Hi
Personally I woudn't change a thing the background frame the subject nicely.
Cheers
Tony