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Magical Color

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted October 5, 2017145 views8 comments

This was an image I had not looked at for almost a year. Thought I will post it for the magial color on the face of the DF, with the hazy wings oof in teh bg ...
Do let me know honestly ...what you feel of this image. I know there are some standard rules for a macro ...its just that i looked at it differently...

This is a long legged marsh glider

7D, 70 200 , F20, 1/10, 400 ISO, 250 Raynox

Balan Vinod

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Ry Birge on October 5, 2017 at 2:09 PM

I like this a lot.. Might brighten the image a little bit to bring in some of the details of the face. Nice composition and background blur adds to the image in my opinion

Registered on September 23, 2017, 118 Posts, 278 Comments

Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on October 5, 2017 at 6:10 PM

cool view. love the eyes. Reducing shadows on face would help a lot and increasing clarity on face.

Registered on May 23, 2009, 800 Posts, 2042 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Williams on October 5, 2017 at 8:09 PM

The color is indeed magical. Amazing the variation of colors between eyes, face, clypeus and mandibles. I also really like the treatment of the BG wings and colors. I only wish the face was a bit sharper.

Registered on December 28, 2010, 636 Posts, 3499 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 6, 2017 at 8:26 AM

Balan, the details and colors in the eyes are great. The rest of the image tells the viewer what the critter is, so it's being somewhat oof seems fine to me. My opinion is that there are no rules in photography (or in art) only guidelines that work well much of the time. New ideas and approaches occur because someone ignores the guidelines and creates something wonderful.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on October 6, 2017 at 9:14 PM

Hi Balan,

The eyes are nice and sharp with well defined facets. For me, I would like to also have the entire head nice and sharp. However, artistically, I think you nailed this one as the colors help pull the observer's eye into those compound eyes of the dragonfly. Well done.................Jim

Registered on January 17, 2004, 705 Posts, 3594 Comments

Comment posted by Albert Darmo on October 6, 2017 at 10:08 PM

Hi Balan

I agree! the colors in the eyes are indeed magical i like how you composed the image to stress the details of the eyes against the background
Albert Darmo

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

Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on October 7, 2017 at 6:40 PM

Balan, this is really an awesome shot! Love the lighting in the eyes and face especially.

Registered on May 27, 2017, 77 Posts, 844 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 8, 2017 at 10:46 AM

Magical indeed. I actually really like the OOF-ness of the rest of the image and would only wish for a little more sharpness in the entire face.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments