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    Canon PowerShot S90
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    Evaluative metering, aperture priority, macro setting
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    The mid-Atlantic region has not escaped the heat wave afflicting much of the country. During such times of stress, critters seek water where they can find it. One resource for them is our swimming pool.

    So we often see wasps, dragonflies, carpenter bees and other insects alight on the surface of the pool, ingest some water, and then take off. But sometimes these efforts go awry, their wings get wet and they become unable to fly away, and they drown.

    Some wasps, including the one shown here, avoid this difficulty by landing on the floats of our Polaris pool cleaner line, and extending their proboscises to drink from those safe, dry perches.

    This image was captured by entering the pool with my camera, and patiently waiting for a wasp to land on a float near me. I especially like the pose of the drinking wasp, and the reflections of a fence surrounding the pool on the water.

    Comments or suggestions?

    Norm
    Last edited by Norm Dulak; 07-25-2011 at 06:00 PM.

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    Hi Norm. This is a very nice story-telling image (glad you included the story ). Looks like the S90 can produce some excellent photos. The wasp is giving you the perfect pose, you have an abundance of DOF, and I like the diagonal comp. Very well done.

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    Hey Norn,
    Cool! I like the story and while not the biggest fan of man made objects.....it works with the story very well! The small camera does give VG IQ! I'd imagine you didn't want to risk the "big rig" in the pool!

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    Nice story telling image, I like the pose. I think I would like the wasp to be a bit brighter.

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    I agree with Steve on the image quality for that camera. I like this alot and the exposure looks great. Although I do like as posted, my only suggestion would beto try to cleanup some of the water reflection marks in between the white lines top of image.

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    Thanks everyone for your comments. Not to worry, I won't get in the habit of photographing artificial structures!

    But now if you'll excuse me, the temperature is rising and I'm heading for the pool!!

    Norm

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