Few more taken with the homemade flash diffuser
On dragonfly, your focus is fine, but the busy background makes the image quite confusing. I know how impossible it is to control insects, but a diffuse background is one factor in a strong insect image.
Your butterflies look fine. Do NOT be afraid to crop-out excess background.
Nikonian72 wrote:
On dragonfly, your focus is fine, but the busy background makes the image quite confusing. I know how impossible it is to control insects, but a diffuse background is one factor in a strong insect image.
He would not land anywhere that was colored differently so I had to take what he would give me he was also one of the dullest colored Dragon Flies around here.
Bmac
Loc: Long Island, NY
hangman45 wrote:
Few more taken with the homemade flash diffuser
Nice shots Hangman45. 8-)
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He would not land anywhere that was colored differently so I had to take what he would give me he was also one of the dullest colored Dragon Flies around here.
Great images! How do you get so close. They always fly away when I get that close. Do you wear camo?
naturepics43 wrote:
How do you get so close. They always fly away when I get that close. Do you wear camo?
Both my Nikkor 105-mm and my Nikkor 55-200 zoom, give me the reach to shoot living dragonflies at about 3-feet WD, then crop.
Red Skimmer Dragonfly via zoom at 200-mm
Bmac
Loc: Long Island, NY
Nikonian72 wrote:
naturepics43 wrote:
How do you get so close. They always fly away when I get that close. Do you wear camo?
Both my Nikkor 105-mm and my Nikkor 55-200 zoom, give me the reach to shoot living dragonflies at about 3-feet WD, then crop.
Wow, that red skimmer image is fantastic. :thumbup:
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