Dragonfly

Posted by AndrewC on Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:05 pm

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D2H, polarised flashes and lens, 200mm f4 at f18, manual flash exposure

Wish I could think of a more imaginative title but ...

This is the effect I was looking for - I deliberately chose a distant background I could render close to black by using flash for my main light. I'm a bit dissappointed in being unable to eliminate all the highlights (this image is "straight out of the camera" with just a bit of sharpening) by sing polarisers but I suspect that with so many curved reflecting surfaces on a dragonfly it is close to impossible to eliminate all hot spots. I'll probably try again with my Apollo softbox and see what I get with that.

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by Wil Hershberger on Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:51 pm

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Awesome shot. I think that the polarizers worked well. The whites are a little hot looking but easily fixed.
Thanks for posting and for the details behind this shot.

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by eagle43 on Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:46 am

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Andrew your self-critique is right on. But still a nice image especially the BG.

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by Michael Brown on Wed Jul 28, 2004 11:40 am

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Still a cool shot!!

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by Wayne Nicholas on Thu Jul 29, 2004 6:23 pm

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Andrew, female Blue-Dashers are just hard to shoot and get perfect. They do reflect a lot of light. I think the polarizers kept the wings from shining too much. Overall, I think with a small bit of PS work, this image should be fine. Nice image.

Thanks for the details.

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by AndrewC on Thu Jul 29, 2004 9:50 pm

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Wayne Nicholas wrote:Andrew, female Blue-Dashers are just hard to shoot and get perfect. They do reflect a lot of light. I think the polarizers kept the wings from shining too much. Overall, I think with a small bit of PS work, this image should be fine. Nice image.

Thanks for the details.

Aha - it's a female Blue Dasher is it ? Thanks