Better say the AF does not support voyeurs mode
There's the Canon cripple hammer at work, again.
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Better say the AF does not support voyeurs mode
Yesterday I could get this one. I suppose it is a male brilliant emerald (somatochlora metallica):
From the color you could be right. But the abdomen looks too round in profile. It should be flattened for a skimmer.I guessed this was a female Blacktailed Skimmer ...
You are probably right. The two females are quite similar but it does look like a young darter flirting with the skimmers.From the color you could be right. But the abdomen looks too round in profile. It should be flattened for a skimmer.
If it is indeed round I would guess this to be a young female darter, e.g. compare to this.
They turn more brownish when they get older.
I guessed this was a female Blacktailed Skimmer as she was hanging around with the men and would land on the ground. Fortunately, with a telephoto I could get a reasonable angle.
Looks like it has had some adventures...I have never got this close to an Emperor Dragonfly before, it was just a few cm beyond the 3m mfd of the lens.
What shutter speed are you using to freeze wing motion?Feeling a second class citizen because I haven't an R5, went to a lake with the old DSLR to see if I can still do BIF. My cameras all have a flaw that makes BIF difficult - no flying birds. Instead, got a DIF of an Emperor coming straight at me. It was 10m away.
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1/4000sWhat shutter speed are you using to freeze wing motion?
I use either the 5DSR +100-400mm II or the D850+500PF for dragonflies. This was with the latter.Alan - fantastic images and holy smokes - which body and lens were you shooting on these DIFs?