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EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

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Antonio De Santis
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EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!
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Fantastic camera and lens and fantastic subject!

Please view the original size

Handled, 1/60 sec at 150mm 300mm@35mm)

Antonio

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greg57 Contributing Member • Posts: 730
Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!
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Nice! You mean "handheld"

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Antonio De Santis
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handheld - Dragonfly closeup!

greg57 wrote:

Nice! You mean "handheld"

Thanks for correction

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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

great detail, as you said, you must to download the original. well worth it. thanks.

cheers don

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Antonio De Santis
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great detail, as you said, you must to download the original. well worth it. thanks.

cheers don

Thanks just printed A3+, fantastic
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

Antonio De Santis wrote:

great detail, as you said, you must to download the original. well worth it. thanks.

cheers don

Thanks just printed A3+, fantastic
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that's the only way to appreciate an image like that, Cool.

cheers don

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gary0319
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Thanks,

Gary

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André BARELIER
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This is the most impressive picture of a dragonfly I've ever seen. Wow!

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Trevor Carpenter
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gary0319 wrote:

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Thanks,

Although Antonio's shot is very good I think you should be able to achieve something of this quality with 100-300

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gary0319
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Trevor Carpenter wrote:

gary0319 wrote:

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Thanks,

Although Antonio's shot is very good I think you should be able to achieve something of this quality with 100-300

Funny, that's the same think my wife said, after looking at the price of the 40-150 Pro.

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Antonio De Santis
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Thanks,

Gary

Thanks Gary The 40-150 Pro is a killer lens, i think, to shot close up of dragonflies and butterflies. I shot always in Raw, i open the photo with PS CC 2015 e only i apply unsharp mask on subject only with layer mask. In this photo i cropped very little ( sorry for.my poor english) because i want bigger subject in final print.
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Thanks to all!
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gary0319
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Re: EM5 Mark II + 40-150 Pro handled - Dragonfly closeup!

Antonio De Santis wrote:

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Thanks,

Gary

Thanks Gary The 40-150 Pro is a killer lens, i think, to shot close up of dragonflies and butterflies. I shot always in Raw, i open the photo with PS CC 2015 e only i apply unsharp mask on subject only with layer mask. In this photo i cropped very little ( sorry for.my poor english) because i want bigger subject in final print.
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Thanks, Antonio

Gary

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Hen3ry
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Beautiful shot, Antonio

Did you take it at the close focusing distance of the lens or did you use extension tubes to get closer?

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Lovely details and lovely colour. Nice work

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Antonio De Santis
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Did you take it at the close focusing distance of the lens or did you use extension tubes to get closer?

Thanks i shot always at close focus distance with thiw lens
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Antonio De Santis
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Lovely details and lovely colour. Nice work

Thanks
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joeletx Veteran Member • Posts: 4,125
Viewing at 100%

is outstanding! indisputably great!

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cainn24 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,892
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gary0319 wrote:

Wonderful, just stunning!

I've been using my Panasonic 100-300 with my E-M5 II for dragonflies, but this puts my efforts to shame. Could you give some details on whether this was raw or jpg, and how much you had to crop, etc?

This may just make my dragonfly shooting more expensive.

Shoot your 100-300 at 150mm or thereabouts, or maybe even a little shorter if you can. Specifically, f/5.6 for maximum center sharpness or f/8 for maximum overall edge-to-edge sharpness (whatever you deem to be most important). It's a whole lot sharper in that range than it is at the long end. In fact the sweet spot of most "consumer-grade" (for lack of a better term) zoom lenses, which you'd be close to in the above scenario, is going to hang pretty well with all the "pro" zooms.

klythawk
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Excellent detail Antonio, one to be well chuffed with

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