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    I shot this in a very small tributary off of the CT River in VT, in a swampy area that held a lot of dragonflies and damselflies.

    Shot with a Canon 50D, Canon 180mm f3.5 macro; 1/500, f9, ISO 800, hand held, evaluative metering.


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    what a beauty.......great detail all the way through. Pose is terrific. Colors and BG all work together. If it were mine I might position the "heart" a bit higher in the frame (bit off the top) but its hard to tell since I can't get the entire frame on my screen (vertical pano?)............no matter, I like it as is. Great shot!

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    The detail and colors are marvelous on this image! I believe this could also be a fabulous horizontal image as well.

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    Lovely colors and composition. Beautiful bg. The suggestion to take a bit off the top is a good one. Nice job.

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    Ken, this is a very nice capture. The colors are good and the wings look great. I agree that a slice off the top would help and there are a few parts of the BG that could use smoothing out, especially that black spot to the right of the female.

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    Thanks for the comments! I think I will take a bit off the top and fix the BG spot to the right of the female. I use LR3 and CS4 to process my images. What would you suggest to fix the dark spot? just blur it or use the clone tool?

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    Maybe both. Clone it away and then if necessary to make the blend more convincing, blur the area.

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    Hey Ken,
    Excellent advice given above......I'm all for the crop and blotch removal.....patch tool works well too. I do think this is a VG comp (debated CCW rotation to get rid of dark green of leaf).....the light /story/Bg all come together to make this an excellent image!

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    A nice one, Ken. I like the behavior you captured and good job getting both sharp. Looks like they both have an ample supply of parasitic mites attached to their abdomens. I like the comp, as presented, though I would agree with cleaning up the background a bit. Well done.

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    Kudos from me as well. Also a vote for less on top and a bit of smoothing to take this to its full potential. Very nice!

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    I think it is a great shot, for my taste I think the blacks are a little heavy and the green is a little heavy too, maybe the black slider at RAW conversion was just a little too high? I know this is personal preference so you may disagree entirely.;)

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