This is a broad bodied chaser (Libellula depressa), photographed last year at the university campus. I'm not sure about the square crop I chose. Thoughts and suggestions welcome!
Panasonic DMC-FZ18, handheld, 83 mm (500 mm eq.), ISO-100, F/4.2, 1/1000 sec, EC 0, pattern metering, aperture priority, RAW.
PP in ACR 5.0 and CS4. CC wise rotation. Levels, sharpness, fill light, clarity. Noise reduction on BG.







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, thereby lighting the face and removing the specular highlights from the wings? Good job capturing a subject I assume didn't hold still for long!
! I tried the fill light slider and a curves adjustment, but all I'm achieving is that the perch starts looking weird. I also had an image with flash to light up the dark areas, but it looked very bad (my pop up flash isn't the best available).


