Robber Fly and 2 dragon flies
Aug 7, 2018 11:57:10 #
At Griffey Lake in Bloomington, IN, looking for bees and butterflies. Got a Robber Fly and dragon flies instead.
The Robber Fly landed so close to me I had to back up to be able to get it in focus. Just had time to get a few images before he departed. As you can see the DoF was a bit challenging.
The dragon fly landing images were made using the Olympus EM-1 II pro-capture function. These images are heavily cropped and shot as ISO 1250, so there is a bit of noise when downloaded.
All shot with Olympus EM-1 II, 40-150 f/2.8 with 1.4 teleconverter.
Enjoy.
Gary
The Robber Fly landed so close to me I had to back up to be able to get it in focus. Just had time to get a few images before he departed. As you can see the DoF was a bit challenging.
The dragon fly landing images were made using the Olympus EM-1 II pro-capture function. These images are heavily cropped and shot as ISO 1250, so there is a bit of noise when downloaded.
All shot with Olympus EM-1 II, 40-150 f/2.8 with 1.4 teleconverter.
Enjoy.
Gary
Aug 7, 2018 11:59:15 #
Aug 7, 2018 12:14:38 #
Hard to get good ones of dragons in flight, very nice. However, I have to say WOW for the fly picture. The detail, color, sharpness, etc. Excellent in my book. Fascinating too.
Aug 7, 2018 12:32:17 #
danniepolley wrote:
I really like the first image
Me too. That is my favorite of the three.
Gary
Aug 7, 2018 12:40:02 #
JeffDavidson wrote:
Hard to get good ones of dragons in flight, very nice. However, I have to say WOW for the fly picture. The detail, color, sharpness, etc. Excellent in my book. Fascinating too.
Jeff, thanks, and glad you enjoyed them.
As for the fly - that is a JPEG straight out of the camera. I only cropped it a little bit.
Still working of the DFs in flight, but the Olympus pro-capture feature helps tremendously. Biggest problem is the closest I can get is about 10' - 12'. When you consider how much of the sensor area a DF covers at that distance it is a bit challenging to get anything decent.
Gary
Aug 7, 2018 19:57:32 #
Aug 8, 2018 13:51:20 #
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