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Published: 2005-04-10 19:09:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 679; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 99
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Taken last summer (too early for dragonflies yet).Related content
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He was probably laughing his ass off and enjoyed seeing a photographer lie down in front of him in the mud!
Thanks for the comment and fav!
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Yeah, dragonflies can look quite comical, I think it is because of the big eyes.
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Thank you Pat!
I absolutely adore those. Don't find them that often and they are a bit harder to catch than blue darters but their colours are amazing. And so are the forceps of the males
Hope it looks good on your desktop
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LOL Cute shot, Kathryn!! I love the comical look on its face!! It reminds me of the "GOT MILK?" commercials that air on TV here in the states. Only I'd make a slight change in the caption since its ''milk mustache'' is a bit on the green side...."Got Creme d'menthe?" .... LOL I put it on my desktop screen with and added 'green' masking to the outermost white of the border that matched the green of its eyes. I just left a narrow white band to the inside of the border. It looks good. It would look good with a dark green matte if it were matted and framed.
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Thank you Pat!
I absolutely adore those. Don't find them that often and they are a bit harder to catch than blue darters but their colours are amazing. And so are the forceps of the males
Hope it looks good on your desktop
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The daughters of the family that I live with thought he looked funny and laughed. It's that green "mustache'' that gives it such a comical look.
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Yeah, might be the mustache. But the eyes are quite funny too.
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Yup...I like its comical look. The combination of the two really add to the effect.
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Eh, wow! Great shot...
"What are you lookin at?" *lol*
Dragonflies are cool, they are actually big enough not to qualify as small and annoying insects anymore... *runs out and hides before you can slap me*
Cheers, Cliff.
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Thanks
Yeah, they are cool...but at the moment I'm more fascinated with all kinds of flies (without "dragons" 
You know, you just have to look through a macro lens and they'll all look big enough not to qualify as "small annoying insects", and then I wouldn't have to slap you anymore. But wait...maybe you actually WANT to be slapped?
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Damn, once again she see's through me...
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You allready got me wondering there... Not to be the picky one, but why did you not shrink the size of the images some?
On the them image itself, the colors of the dragonfly bring good contast to the spebblestone background. I think I would have taken it the exact same way
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I guess it was because at this size, you can still see the individual lenses of the compound eyes in some places, if you look carefully. I often have a hard time deciding how small/large I should submit a picture, because what's the use of having a macro lens and capturing all the wonderful detail, and then shrink it to a size where it is barely noticeable?
But I guess I could've submitted this one smaller, it wouldn't have lost much.
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You got a good point there, but when you compare maximum detail vs not scrolling true a picture to see it all (internet that is), then I choose none to little scrolling most of the time.
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Yeah, I know, it's always a tightrope walk. A crop would be a different solution, but when I do that, people usually complain that they want to see the whole animal rather than only the head...
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I don't get it, why complain about a shoot when it's aways the artist impression. Critics are welcome, but people shouldn't complain. When it comes to critics, they should mention why and how the would like to see it different not only say "I don't like that".
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diese grünen Augen sind einfach nur geil,
dass muss ich mal so los werden, ein bisl mehr tifenschärfe hätte das gute tierchen
unter den Augen noch vertragen können, aber echt toll, mag es
ist einen fav wert
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Ja, das mit der Schärfentiefe im Makrobereich ist immer so ein Problem, mit den Nahfiltern überhaupt. Ich war eh schon auf Blende 16. Noch höherer Blendenwert und die Bildqualität wird auch wieder schlechter, man sieht jedes futzikleines Staubkörnchen am Sensor und das leicht reicht auch bei guten Lichtverhältnissen nimmer. Ich kenn das Problem, hab dafür aber noch nicht wirklich eine Lösung gefunden. Ist immer eine Gratwanderung.
Ja, die grünen Augen sind definitiv ein Highlight dieser Art...
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Great, well focused photo. And the colours are beautiful in it
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Thanks a lot!
Well, I messed up the focus on quite a few of them, but that's the ones the world will never see
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Igitt *g*
hab ja auf einen vorwarnenderen Titel gehofft
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Du weißt eh schon, dass ich beiss, wenn wer igitt zu meinen wunderschönen Viecherln sagt...
Konnte keinen englischen nicht-wissenschaftlichen Namen finden, und Dragonfly 589 oder so wollt ichs auch nicht nennen. Ist es nicht spannender, wenn man keine Ahnung hat, was einen erwartet?
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wunderschön? 
Naja es geht. Zum Glück hab ich ein kräftiges Herz und einen stabilen Sessel
Hab neulich eh auch irgend ein garstiges Tier fotografiert weil ich an dich denken musste 
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Also die grünen Augen sind schon cool, findest nicht?
Gibt's das "garstige Tier" irgendwo zu sehen, bzw. weißt ungefähr, was es war?
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naja blau wär mir lieber..
wenn ich will, ja
Bei der Ubahn-Station Volkstheater in einer Auslage... schön riesig... wenn auch nicht echt.
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Ok, mal schauen, vielleicht hat die nächste blaue Augen.
In der Vitrine des Naturhistorischen Museums?
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Wär super 
Hm.. ich glaub..
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Vielen Dank!
Ich freu mich schon darauf, wenn es wieder mehr Libellen zum Fotografieren gibt...
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Die Libellen haben nicht jetzt hier gekommen. Ich möchte auch gern die Libellen zum fotografieren, wenn sie hier sind.
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Ich habe bei uns heuer auch noch keine gesehen, es ist glaub ich noch zu kalt. Diese hier ist vom letzten Sommer.
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Ich glaubte, dass es vom diesen Jahr war, deshalb war ich sehr überrascht, dass es Libellen in Österreich früher als in Spanien war.
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Das wäre allerdings sehr seltsam. Bei euch in Spanien ist es doch wärmer, also sollten sie bei euch früher aktiv werden.
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Grandma, what big green eyes you have...
The details are once again what I love about this piece. SO many to look at, and so much to see here.
Quite a good shot, darlin'. I like it.
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Lol the funny thing is that one of my grandmothers really has brownish-green eyes. No compound eyes though, and she can't fly either.
I had to get real close to get the details - I was lying in the mud a few centimetres away from the dragongfly...
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Thanks!
I love the green eyes of this species...
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Really really good. But you know me I like everything that has dragonflies involved. Great focus, although I think you should have lowered your camera a bit to get the whole dragonfly into the picture. Even though it's abdomen would have been blurry it has great forcepts in the back. All in all, you know what you do. Well done
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I guess you're right about getting the whole dragonfly into the picture. It's mainly a thing of me wanting to get as close as possible and to get as much detail as possible. I often forget that a full view of the whole animal would be preferable over just details in some cases. I got several other pics though, which show the abdomen specifically to show the forceps, which are one of the most notable characteristics of the species.
Thanks for the constructive comment!
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Yes they are. Quite magnificent. Well, actually I think it's better to have as much detail as possible and if possible also show the whole insect. In this case I think you could have gotten the whole insect and the detail you need. When I'm shooting insects I hardly ever think about a good composition, background or anything like that. I'm just happy to be able to photograph the damn insect before it notices me and flies away. But I guess that's the thing when taking macros of living insects
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Yup, same here. I first take some rather random (composition-wise) photos when shooting insects, and only after I've got a few detailed ones I start thinking about composition and take a few better composed ones (if the insect lets me, that is). And dragonflies have terribly keen eyes, moving the cam around a lot and too quick can spoil everything...
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I do that too. And usually I also keep shooting it as I approach it, y'know. so at least I've gotten some shots before it leaves. I know what you mean with dragonflies. they can actually see a small insect from about 20 metres or so, especially the big darners are very cautious and that's why I like photographing them early in the morning when they're not able to fly because of inaquate warmth. Photographing dragonflies is a challenge and I like that. + they're extremely majestic and beautiful
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What I'd really like to get is a dragonfly in flight, but autofocus doesn't like this, and I'm too slow manually too...
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That's right! Damn I've been trying to get in-flight shot's but you know, it just doesn't work for me. I lock the focus and then wait for the dragonfly to come as close to the camera as I think the locked focus was and then I just take the photo. but you know how it is. it never hits the focused area and after all we're talking about macros so the dof isn't that wide.
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Yup, no luck here either. Best I got was too very blurry pics of damselflies in flight. Not altogether bad, but not as good as I want them to be.
I'll be out trying again this summer.
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