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    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.
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    Robert Amoruso
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    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.

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    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!!

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    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
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    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Amoruso View Post
    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.
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Moats View Post
    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 Mathew and Mike make a good point - its a common fault with me trying to get too much DOF and so the BG suffers - something I have to work on - more use of my DOF preview button :)

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    Robert O'Toole
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    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

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    Hi

    Personally I woudn't change a thing the background frame the subject nicely.
    Cheers
    Tony

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