Critique Style Requested: Initial Reaction
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Questions to guide your feedback
I am new to dragonfly/damselfly photography. I have access to a mountain pond and decided to give it a try. Taken with Z8 and Z100-400. I took about 1500 shots and salvaged 40. Problems were many: DOF, SS, blown out whites, high ISO. Suggestions from more experience photogs will be appreciated.
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Image Description
Hundreds of damsel and dragon flies over a shallow pond full of tadpoles. Mating activity was common. Shot late afternoon with sun at my back but still too bright at 5PM. Sunset here is about 9:30PM. I was standing on a bridge between two ponds/hand held.
Technical Details
Z8, 100-400 at 400mm. SS 1/2500, ISO 9000
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