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Originally Posted by dpastern
Not a bad set Troy - I like the angle on the tent spider. Like you, my only shot of the cockroach caught it on the move and had blur, and the angle was less than desirable so it got trashed in camera. The Red darter looks OK to my eyes @ this resolution, pity you couldn't get closer, but they were especially nervous yesterday I felt. I tried several times and gave up - as soon as I got within 10' they were off.
The damselfly shot is awesome though - you've held its colours really nicely (did you do any PP saturation?).
Dave
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As you know, dragonflies like to perch at a few favourite spots. I crept up on this guy in the prone position like a sniper - a rather unfit sniper. When he buzzed off I just waited, or got Andrew's kids to shoo him/her back in my general direction. Sure enough he/she landed on the rock I had in my sights. Took me 10mins of stalking to get this shot and it was as close as I could get.
That damsel was patient - this was 2x magnification with the MP-E.
All these shots are just loaded into Lightroom (sorry, H) and on import I have a standard preset of setting I apply. They all looked as good as they're going to get there, just increased the exposure a little I think. The saturation and clarity are bumped up a little in my preset.