Some DragonFly Shots from Pagie

[Pagie]

Hi Everyone,

A Happy Holiday season to all.

I was out and about today and found myself photographing a Dragonfly for a while. Upon uploading the images to Lightroom I was quite pleased with the results and thought I'd share.

I've been having trouble with manually focusing of late, and it was good to finally have a bit of success for a change.

These were taken hand holding a Canon 60d with a Canon EF 100mm F2.8 Macro USM lens and a Kenko Pro 300 DGX 2x Teleconverter.

The effective aperture was F5.6, but was bright enough that I still had a shutter speed of 1/1000th of a second at ISO 200. Was still not fast enough to freeze the wing movement though.

Enjoy...

[RogerCook]

WOW! I would love to get a shot like that, very nice.

[Donald]

Getting those 'in flight' shots, even though there might be a bit of blur on the wings, is pretty impressive. Well done, Michael.

[Bobobird]

Excellent shots and well done to catch these guys.

Freezing wings - a bit of wing blur makes more sense then a fully frozen shot as it conveys a sense of motion.

I spent a lot of time last summer doing the same and it was a frustrating experience though rewarding when it all came right.

[CLK]

Very nicely done. Must take a lot of patience.

[FootLoose]

Great shots, Michael. I agree with Bobo about the wing blur. I prefer the first image to the second one because the blurred wings give it that sense of action.

[Pagie]

Hi guys,

Thanks for your words of encouragement.

I like to think that we all have a bit of luck occasionally and I think I used mine for this week.

Have a great week and may the photography gods look favourably upon us all.