Hi y'all,
I was out at the Gilbert Water Ranch, Gilbert, Arizona, USA chasing little birdies with my new Canon EOS 1D MKII camera and 500mm lens. It was overcast and it gave the Roseate Skimmer dragonflies a beautiful glow...
Roseate Skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea) Canon EOS 1D MKII dSLR, Canon EF 500mm f 4L IS lens + Canon EF 2x II teleconverter, ISO 800, 1/320 sec @ f 16, Canon 550ex electronic flash with "Better Beamer" flash extender, fill flash -1 2/3 stops, tripod w/Wimberley Sidekick gimbel head.
This image is full frame, no cropping. I was at the minimum focusing distance of 14.8'. I added the fill flash to put some sparkle on the wings. Images I made without the fill flash made the wings look dull and lifeless. All I would need to do to make the dragonfly fill the frame would be to attach a 12mm or 25mm extension tube between the lens and teleconverter. My next challenge...A flying dragonfly at 1000mm
Best regards to all as always,
Dragonfly at 1000mm... :)
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Dragonfly at 1000mm... :)
Tom Webster
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!
Wow! Amazing! All your photographs are of great quality and vivid, Tom. You can feel conditions in which pics was taken. You can almost breathe an air of original place just looking at them!
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Thank you, my friends.
These Roseate Skimmers are probably the prettiest of the dragonflies found at the Water Ranch and are also terribly hard to approach. Being able to photograph them at 15' is going to be a real plus. Now, to find some more...
Best regards to all as always,
These Roseate Skimmers are probably the prettiest of the dragonflies found at the Water Ranch and are also terribly hard to approach. Being able to photograph them at 15' is going to be a real plus. Now, to find some more...
Best regards to all as always,
Tom Webster
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!
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That's just a part of the branch. The stuff stuck in the spider web is general "crud".MacroLuv wrote:Is it a small spider or ant on the branching place of that trunk?
Tom Webster
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!
Phoenix "The Valley of the Sun", Arizona, USA
The worst day photographing dragonflies is better than the best day working!