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Dragonfly very close up H5

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Today went to the Amstel Parc in Amsterdam. Used the H5 and the VCL3358 to take this shot of a Dtagonfly.

I cropped it a bit to dramatise the alien look this animal has. It was beautiful to see moving it´s mouth or beak, don´t know the exact word. Most of the time they are very shy and dissapear when you get close but even while it took off a few times it returned every time giving me tthe chance to shoot quite some keepers.

Sony H5, manual mode, Iso 125, 1/125th at F5.6 with VCL3358, close up setup setting and flash down by 0,7 stop, focal distance 395mm

Removed a few highlights in PP



hope you like it

Jeroen
 
good a photograph of a dragon fly as has ever been posted.

Well perhaps it should be darkend a little.

Only thing wrong is I didn't take it

Marion
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Hi Marion,

thank you. I think anybody with a H series and a vcl3358 or Canon 250D can take shots like this one.

Jeroen
 
Hi R2,

this is one of those keepers....

At first I thought that the differences between the H1 and H5 were not that big but know after two weeks and 1100 photo´s I think different. Today there was also an H1 present and side by side the pictures show considerable differences. But I still like the H1 as well

Jeroen
 
goes a lot further back on STF than shooting ducks.
This one is a stellar contribution to that tradition.
John Dunn
 
Hi John,

thanks for your nice comment. It is one of those rare shots that I am really happy with. I will print I nice big enlargement of it for the wall...

thanks

Jeroen
 
Thanks,

funy thing was that is was opening and closing it's mouth and there is even a sort of tung in there, it was licking it's lips (as far as you can speak of that in this case)

It's one of the reasons I like to shoot CU so much , one descoveres a lot that you normally don't see.

Jeroen
 
Hi Jerry,

thanks. I have to give a lot of credit to the equipment as it is starting to work for me more and more. The H5 for me is an H1 on steroids...

Jeroen
 
Thanks,

I am glad that it is not really very big, if it would smile at me in that case I would start running ;-)

Jeroen
 
Hi Marti,

thanks. sometimes it all works in your favour. It's something I try to explain to starters not to be afraid to try and that throwing away pictures that are bad is normal, I had an fairly high rate of keepers this tme but soemtimes it is down to 2 or three out of 30...

But that's the sport

Jeroen
 
Hi Adrian,

it's good to see you are still hear. I have been away for a couple of months and found the Stf changed quite a bit.

Hope to see shots from you soon, especially the windmills and your Son running.

greetings (groetjes)

Jeroen
 
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