Coming in for a landing

Image Critiques Macro/Close-up Critiques
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Image Description

I went out to sweat water reserve to look for shore birds. However, there was a lot of moss on the water. Lots of dragon flies, so wanted to see if I could get one in flight. None of them would hover but did get one coming into a landing. This might be the first I captured landing a fraction of a second.

Feedback Requests

I did a 3x4 crop I wanted to add some of the 3D effect. The green is all that moss, too bright?

Pertinent Technical Details

Canon r5 ii, RF 200-800mm at 800mm 1/2000 f/14 ISO 1600 electronic shutter 30 fps HH

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Dean: I’ve yet to get a flight shot so I’m insanely jealous. Great positioning and focus and the reed is positioned perfectly in the frame. Top notch shot. >=))>

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Nicely done and I love the cattail leaf it’s using for a landing pad. The pose of the dragonfly is excellent with the legs unfolded in preparation for landing.

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Amazing capturing this guy about to land. Way to Cool. I have tried to do this but failed. You did it and this really works. One of the best Dragonfly images I have seen. Great Image !!!

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Hi Dean,

Very nice capture! In-flight images capture so many details you simply can’t see when the animal is perching.

As to the hue and luminosity of the green background, I guess it all depends on the message you want to send. If you want to say that this animal lived in a habitat of moss, then you’ve nailed it.

I’m only a beginning dragonfly watcher, but I’m pretty sure this a pondhawk. Eastern Pondhawks have green faces and eyes, while Western Pondhawks have blue eyes. Is this a Western Pondhawk?

Russ

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Thanks for the feedback, @Dennis_Plank @russ_carpenter @Bill_Fach and @Gill_Vanderlip I know how the dragonfly works. He will be landed somewhere, then take off. I don’t know how they do it but very quickly they land at the exact place. So I was doing continuous shooting 30fps. I just learned the camera has a pre continuous mode that saves images in the buffer before pressing the shutter down all the way. I did want to capture the environment but wanted the background still blurred.

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Dean, this is an excellent catch of this DF with it’s landing gear down. The cattail leaf is an interesting perch. The background greens set off the DF’s blue very well.

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Great job capturing this DF in-flight and getting ready to land. I have yet to capture an in-flight DF. Maybe one day.

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Way cool, with a very interesting minimalist perch!! The green works for me – it’s slime time up here, too, with the late summer heat.

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The pond nearby has a ton of growth with long green plants in the water. Not sure what it is called but it is common in small lakes or ponds. Some of the DF are quite large and very fast.