Pretty dragonfly's

[Dennis]

Hi,

Here are a couple of photos of some dragon fly’s (I think?); there were some types with a reddish head, and others with more of a blue colour flitting around a shallow lake. I managed to grab a couple of photos whilst they temporarily alighted on this stick for a breather. The subjects were approximately 2 metres away. These are crops of ¼ to 1/6 of the full frame.

Canon 40D, EF70-200mm F4L IS USM lens set to 200mm, hand held.
ISO 400, 1/320 sec at f5.6 and 1/500 sec at f6.3.

Cheers

Dennis

[leon]

Nice capture Dennis, there amazing little creatures, well done.

Leon

[Dennis]

Thanks Leon. Photography has become more of a relaxed pleasure now that I have equipment that produces better results. Now if only I could afford the Canon 400mm f/2.8L IS USM Super Telephoto Lens! :whistle::whistle:

Cheers

Dennis

[leon]

Now wouldn't that be a treat Dennis, you could then see the whites of their eyes. :lol:, the bugs that is....:whistle:

Leon :thumbsup:

[ving]

nice ones dennis :) you have got alot of detail there!
i dont know what programs you use but PSP has jpeg artifact removal that would make those look alot smoother. the background is rather noisy.

[Dennis]

Hi John

Thanks, the new Canon has sure made grabbing these shots a whole lot easier than my cherished Pentax *ist DS.

I'm still feeling my way around Photoshop (CS3) - I'm sure there are tools in there that will smoothen the background. I have noticed that these "monotone" backgrounds tend to have the noise “amplified” when even a small amount of sharpening is done.

Cheers

Dennis