Dragonflies and Damselflies

[Maximilian]

Yet another well backlit anax:

 

[Click]

Beautiful shot. I really like this one.

 

[Maximilian]

Beautiful shot. I really like this one.

Thanks, Click.

 

[koenkooi]

I went to a bog a few weeks ago, there were so many dragonflies around that they became hard to avoid. Here's one sitting on my hat while I'm trying to take a picture of another one.

 

[koenkooi]

With that many around I could try to get some more artistic shots. My goal for this photo was to get the shadows projected on the grass to line up with the actual wings, but it didn't quite work out, the MFD of the RF100-500 combined with it being a bog didn't allow for getting into the right spot without much larger rubber boots

 

[koenkooi]

One taken with the new RF100 f/2.8L lens. In the shade at 7AM, ISO 12800 + Topaz Denoise.

 

[Click]

One taken with the new RF100 f/2.8L lens. In the shade at 7AM, ISO 12800 + Topaz Denoise.

Great shot!

 

[AlanF]

Another one in the shade. My wife saw through the kitchen window a dragonfly land in the deep shade of a bay tree in a slight drizzle. It was a Southern Hawker, a huge 70mm long dragonfly. Here is the full length beauty and homing in on its eye at 500mm. Iso 2500, pushed through 3 stops, equivalent to 20k.

 

[Click]

WOW! Beautiful shots, Alan.

 

[Maximilian]

Yet a better pic of a banded demoiselle (calopteryx splendens) than the ones I could do before

 

[Click]

I really like the "metallic effect" for this banded demoiselle.

 

[EricN]

I really like the "metallic effect" for this banded demoiselle.

Me too!

cropped from 70mm f/2. I tried to get closer, but spooked them.

 

[Maximilian]

I really like the "metallic effect" for this banded demoiselle.

Me too!

Me too! Thanks guys.
The most difficult part is to get the right angle where they are really cyan blue and less greenish - especially when you try on them in flight

 

[Maximilian]

I tried to get closer, but spooked them.

That's a really difficult waiting game. To move really, - r-e-a-l-l-y - slow towards them
I hope for more luck next time. Still a really nice picture, Eric.

 

[EricN]

That's a really difficult waiting game. To move really, - r-e-a-l-l-y - slow towards them
I hope for more luck next time. Still a really nice picture, Eric.

Thanks. I think it would have been better if I'd stopped down, but I was excited to see the lens wide open.

 

[Nemorino]

Sometimes you can get really close:
Eos R5 + Laowa 15mm Macro @ f/8, Iso1600

Eos R5 + Sigma 105mm @ f/5.6, Iso800

Eos R5 + Sigma 105mm + MT 24 @ f/9, Iso640

 

[Click]

WOW Excellent shots. Well done, Nemorino.

 

[Maximilian]

Sometimes you can get really close:
Eos R5 + Laowa 15mm Macro @ f/8, Iso1600

Great series, Nemorino.

Especially the first one is fascinating as one is not used to such UWA macros. Seeing the BG that sharp still having the damselfly so close is fantastic.
And the flare is some great artistic effect and not a flaw of the lens

 

[Nemorino]

And the flare is some great artistic effect and not a flaw of the lens

Thank you!
To be honest I had to remove a larger flair (bottom, left). It's a disadvantage of the WA macros: in one direction you get the shadow of the lens on the subject. In the other direction these flairs. :-(

 

[koenkooi]

This one landed in my garden and remained long enough to swap the RF100-500 for the EF180 + flash. The A4 sized softbox turned out to be not soft enough, the highlight in the eye resisted to all local adjustments in Lightroom.