In flight

[Bobobird]

Green Darner in flight. 150+1.4TC. Manual focus, f8. 1/1000, ISO 400.

Got this yesterday. My 2nd now. Pretty pleased too. Lots of patience and practise.

[jprzybyla]

Well done Bobo. I wondered about the manual focus and a flying dragonfly, looking at the f8 aperature and your tele-converter I guess you could not auto-focus. Nice image.

[terrib]

Great job! The focus and the colors are wonderful. I would imagine that does take some patience. I spent over an hour one day trying to catch a wood bee in flight. It went from fun to frustration to determination and I managed to get one shot. Love your dragonfly pictures. Will be sorry to see you move on but excited to see what you concentrate on next!

[Bobobird]

Thanks Joe, Terri.

It is a 2.8 lens so a 1.4TC would not have affected the AF. f8 was selected to get just a bit more DOF.

The use of MF was forced on me as each time he came around I just could'nt lock it in time using AF. Used MF to focus to a spot where he had to come round and waited. This was the only of about 20-30 shots that came out okish.

Well, for next time it will still be dragons - hope to catch a head-on, or mating pair (or if I am lucky, both!).

Will also try to get a better pano+stack shot as posted in that other thread.

If successful will the move on to something else. Most likely birds but depends on what turns up.

[Plumcrak]

Very nice shot. I have a hard time tracking my 12 year old dog, who moves at a snails pace, let alone a dragon fly...them things are quick

[Bobobird]

Thanks Jon, no way these guys can be tracked. It is just set for correct exposure, wait, get focus if lucky, shoot. Just this one from almost 1 hour of trying.

[Markvetnz]

Neat shot! I know how hard it is to shoot these.

[botspur]

Very good Bobo, I admire your patience and persistence.

[Bobobird]

Thanks Mark, Clive.

For a newbie like myself the only way for me to improve is to step into unknown territory.