Dragonflies (Stills & Flight)

Thought id'e share some Dragonflies I have come across from recent birding trips.

No matter what I shoot I always get distracted when I see a dragonfly.

regards,
Vas

Blue Skimmer (m)

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Banded Flutterer

Blue Skimmer (m)

Blue Skimmer (m)

Scarlet Percher (m)

Scarlet Percher (m)

Blue-spotted Hawker

Tau Emerald

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Tau Emeralds mating

Blue-spotted Hawker

Blue Skimmer (m)

Scarlet Percher (f)

Scarlet Percher (f)

Blue Skimmer (f)

Very enjoyable.  I love dragonflies too.  You got great shots.

Fantastic...I have no idea how you'd get them in frame and in focus while flying...love them...no out to the garden to practice!
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Very good!  I especially like the extreme close-ups.

I have suffered form it myself, but never with results like yours. Wonderful pix.

Old Listener wrote:

Very enjoyable. I love dragonflies too. You got great shots.

Thank you

ThirstyDursty wrote:

Fantastic...I have no idea how you'd get them in frame and in focus while flying...love them...no out to the garden to practice!
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Thanks

It's not easy, especially with the Blue Skimmers in flight. Can get frustrating at times

ambercool wrote:

Very good! I especially like the extreme close-ups.

Thanks

The 40-150 + mc-14 has some impressive close-ups, not as impressive as the 60mm macro but if your subjects are as big as dragonflies it's pretty good or better at times, especially if the subjects don't allow you to get too close

Najinsky wrote:

vass wrote:

Thought id'e share some Dragonflies I have come across from recent birding trips.

No matter what I shoot I always get distracted when I see a dragonfly.

regards,
Vas

I really like this one. Lovely colours.

I'm pretty much the same, always getting distracted by them.

Here's one from Thailand:

And thanks for naming them, I often wondered what their names were. So I now know this is a scarlet percher!

-Andy

cheers

It lacks black markings
maybe this will help you, I remember I was looking at some thai dragonflies before

http://www.pbase.com/dragonfly_05/dragonflies_of_thailand

Hen3ry wrote:

I have suffered form it myself, but never with results like yours. Wonderful pix.

Thanks Geoffrey

Donald B wrote:

love the little fellas as well. sorry about the one being eaten the hover fly was huuuuge...

cheers don

Must of been pretty big when you look at it.

lovely set, I always get distracted also when I see them...but to take a shot of those flying things while airborne is another story... are you willing to share the method for it ?

Regards,

Pedro

Again, what a good collection!

Thanks for sharing

Excellent series vass.

Love #3, Banded Flutterer, nice isolated perch, pose and background. Haven' tseen one of these before.

I too can get distracted by them. Didn't know any of them by name, so thanks for that.

lovely set, I always get distracted also when I see them...but to take a shot of those flying things while airborne is another story... are you willing to share the method for it ?

Regards,

Pedro

Yeah, birds in flight sounds easy compared to dragonflys... Impressive focusing.

Whatever you turn your camera at, you seem to get the very best out of it Vas. Wonderful set and again, top work.

All the best Vas, man you can shoot

Danny.

jcr4486 wrote:

lovely set, I always get distracted also when I see them...but to take a shot of those flying things while airborne is another story... are you willing to share the method for it ?

Regards,

Pedro

Not much too it same as I do birds.
Good following skills and smacking that trigger to fire a burst ASAP when you lock. if your focus points drop off back to practise.
Sometimes I do it with C-AF sometimes with C-AF + Tr
And don't forget to pre-focus otherwise you will never see anything but blur and have lens hunt.
And another tip is study the flight patterns, paths behaviour etc

nzmacro wrote:

Whatever you turn your camera at, you seem to get the very best out of it Vas. Wonderful set and again, top work.

All the best Vas, man you can shoot

Danny.

Thanks Danny
Encouraging words from the manual focus master
You should see what I have coming, just have a mighty dragonfly backlog to sought out 1st hehe