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Blue DF

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted October 12, 2011132 views4 comments

Shot 8/6/11, at Winchester Lake, Idaho. Shot in Raw. Mid to Late morning sun. Nothing was landing for long, so this was hand held.
Processed in elements 8. Cropped to about 80% of FF. Does the composition work? Tried to balance with cropping. Any feedback is really apperciated and a big help.

D300
Nikon 105mm macro lens
F9
1/250's
ISO 320

Ron Huff
Culdesac, Idaho

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Fabio Giarrizzo on October 13, 2011 at 1:02 AM

Beautiful species, well depicted- Composition is very fine on this one, and F9 is probably the best choice with that situation (with a wider aperture you could get a smoother BG, but probably loosing the focus on head or on the end of body)- Great job, Fabio

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Comment posted by Sally King on October 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM

Beautiful dragonfly. I think the blurriness of the background is perfect. Nice color combination.

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Comment posted by Sam Rua on October 16, 2011 at 7:17 PM

That's some nice detail, Ron. If this were mine I would darken or clone out the bright area in the lower left.

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Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on October 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM

Ron:
Works for me. Nice looking DF with good DOF and sharpness. The bg is pleasing and I second Sam's suggestion of darkening the LLC.

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