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Australian Tiger and Blue Skimmer

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Australian Tiger and Blue Skimmer
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Some Dragonflies from a few weeks back taken with E-M1 + 40-150 pro + Mc-14

An Australian Tiger dragonfly in the first 4 photo's and a Blue Skimmer Dragonfly (female) in the rest.

Enjoy!

regards,
Vas

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Very nice set if images

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Dreeke Senior Member • Posts: 1,080
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Wow, those are really nice. Especially the in flight ones. Well done.

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Nice shots! Years ago I was into shooting dragon in flight, I clocks over 20K shots in one E-3 body. This stuff is very addictive, and it is good!

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Better than "good job", mate -- bl**dy marvelous! :) nt
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PhotoguyCanada wrote:

Very nice set if images

Thanks mate

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Dreeke wrote:

Wow, those are really nice. Especially the in flight ones. Well done.

Thank you Dreeke

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Vas, pardon my ignorance, but do you do something special to attract the dragon flies to the stick? Fantastic photos, BTW!

/Bill

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joeletx wrote:

Nice shots! Years ago I was into shooting dragon in flight, I clocks over 20K shots in one E-3 body. This stuff is very addictive, and it is good!

Thanks
I don't target them or go out shooting for them as the main prize mainly because they are everywhere, I basically spend half an hour or so shooting them when birding and when the are not around certain areas. I'm very opportunistic and will shoot anything I see. But yes they are addictive and a few times iv'e missed birds because of them. They actually make the bird shoot much more pleasant and its good to vary a little. Sometimes the highlight of the day is the Dragonfly shot.

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Thank you Geoffrey

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WGHalvorsen wrote:

Vas, pardon my ignorance, but do you do something special to attract the dragon flies to the stick? Fantastic photos, BTW!

/Bill

Not at all, everything I shoot is free and with minimal disruptance. I like to capture everything in it's natural environment and natural life. Shooting birds on a feeder attracting insects is just not for me as I love to capture the moment naturally.

The dragonflies will land on certain perches, the tiger especially and its gets buzzed off by other dragonflies but returns to the same perch after chasing them off but not always. I locked on twice just before it got back to the perch as I was expecting it there but I did mnage a good mid flight of it too.

The Blue Skimmer same story this time but it did change perches, it's pretty obvious where it is too land but my favourite of it is the head on about 1.5 from the perch it landed after.

Some of the other dragonflies I shot in earlier threads like the Blue-spotted hawker, Australian Emperor and especially the Australian Emerald (my favourite) do not perch much at all in the day. The Australian emperor I have only seen perched 2 times since I started shooting them. 99% of the time it will never stop flying.

Thank you

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Superb shots vass. What focus approach do you take for these?

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Superb shots vass. What focus approach do you take for these?

Thanks

CAF or CAF + Tr

9 box or single box AF.

Sequential H.

Depends on the range I expect to get them and the dragonflies behaviour

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vass wrote:

Some Dragonflies from a few weeks back taken with E-M1 + 40-150 pro + Mc-14

An Australian Tiger dragonfly in the first 4 photo's and a Blue Skimmer Dragonfly (female) in the rest.

Enjoy!

regards,
Vas

Wonderful shots !

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Thanks Alex

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Wish you'd stop taking the pi** and post a few blurry ones Excellent inflight detail Vas, as always

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klythawk wrote:

Wish you'd stop taking the pi** and post a few blurry ones Excellent inflight detail Vas, as always

I don't have any j/k

Thanks John

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vass wrote:

robonrome wrote:

Superb shots vass. What focus approach do you take for these?

Thanks

CAF or CAF + Tr

9 box or single box AF.

Sequential H.

Depends on the range I expect to get them and the dragonflies behaviour

IIRC I've mostly used SAF or MF prefocused on the perch but the slightest breeze moves it quite a bit.  Will need to try CAF next time I give it a go--these are super.

Cheers,

Rick

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