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Three Stumps

by Balan Vinod

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted March 31, 2014169 views8 comments
Folks,

This was made in the evening, and had composed this diagonal. Guess this is a ground skimmer.?

7D, 70 200 with extn tubes,400ISO, F9, 1/40

Thanks NPN for you support

Balan Vinod

Comments

8 comments
Comment posted by Thomas Haney on March 31, 2014 at 9:30 PM
I love this Balan, the color and comp are great and there's a sense that the dragonfly is in flight. Well done.
Registered on April 7, 2013, 138 Posts, 537 Comments
Comment posted by scott lanz on March 31, 2014 at 10:02 PM
Wonderful eye to eye perspective, and I like DF's diagonal position in the frame. The bg is very nice. I guess I wonder about a bit more dof on the wings, but I don't know if you were shooting with a tripod and could have stopped down any more. Of course, I know shallow dof is more your shooting style, Balan, you did get the head and legs nice and sharp against the nice bg.
Registered on November 14, 2003, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
Comment posted by Yun Gao on March 31, 2014 at 11:38 PM
Good diagonal composition with front view, Balan. Simple and nice color palette as usual. I wish there was a little more room at the top and on the left. Nice capture.
Registered on September 11, 2012, 267 Posts, 1621 Comments
Comment posted by Jim Hackley on April 3, 2014 at 12:07 PM
I really like the subject with 3 sticks showing and a wonderful background color. I would of preferred a straight horizontal position but a fine overall composition with pleasing colors.
Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments
Comment posted by Roberto Facchini on April 3, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Beautiful dragonfly composition. I like the point shooting and the background.
Registered on November 15, 2012, 35 Posts, 202 Comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 3, 2014 at 10:57 PM
Balan, I think this is tilted... :biggrin: The soft warm colors in both the df and the background work very well. As a dof "nut", I too would like to see more sharpness in the wings, but that's a style issue and this is a terrific look as presented.
Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
Comment posted by Balan Vinod on April 4, 2014 at 5:49 AM
Folks,

Thanks for your comments and answering some of the questions asked ..

Scott: On DOF: Could have tried mor dof, but I would have brought in a fair amount of muck into the BG.

Mark: On Tilt: Yes this was intentionally tilted during the shoot. I do have the straight image too, posted this as I felt the flat empty space above was not good to look at. ( well, thats what I thought, could have been a better image as well)

Balan Vinod
Registered on March 20, 2006, 889 Posts, 2312 Comments
Comment posted by Albert Darmo on April 7, 2014 at 10:51 AM
Hi Balan :wavey: This interesting comp. works for me .. the colors are delightful!


Albert Darmo

Canada
Registered on November 25, 2008, 1386 Posts, 11978 Comments