southern-hawker-male Photo

Photographer’s Note

This is the full on view of yesterdays posting , think I have said this before but no magic involved here or even super glue, but they come into my growing tunnels at work looking for insects to eat but beause they try to fly upwards to escape they get traped in the them, and have to be rescued when tired they can be picked up and lifted out side and at that point you can get your picture if the camera is in your hand and ready to go ( the sony F707 works very well one handed seem to be able to do most adjustments), you can some times get 20 -30 shots before they go, the little darters are the worst to do as they seem to be ready to go almost imeadiatley, but at least they can be sneaked up on in the wild :0)))#.
I had prepaired this for posting back when I took it but people seemed bored with them at that point and had lain forgotten in the posting file till Bente posted his and made me think about my older pics (thanks )
Adjustments, well on this who knows the piece of paper has long gone from the desk top but it will of followed my usual formular of crop to size @600dpi this is because I always keep a file for printing and this is the resalution I use for this. Then its saturation ,lightness, brightness & contrast +&- , if needed burn and sharpen tools with soft and hard brushes to areas that need to be brought into focus or darkened when a little over exposed. Apply an overal Unsharp mask seems for most of my images to be around 130% X 1.9 pixels radius X threshold of 1.
then save image to print file, followe dby resize image to 72DPI (PPI) which brings it down to sreen resalution and if the image was originally cropped to 28.22cm wide this will become 800 pixels wide , just perfect for posting to TE
then use save for web and adjust the image to fall just below the 200K limit for TE I find a value of 193K -197K seems to be OK, place in folder for Te postings seperate from the ones you down load to work shop, or you could end up posting somebody else`s picture by mistake :0(((#. post to TE and await comments and be surprised by what other people see in your pictures. :0))))))#

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carper (64878) 2003-11-23 6:16

Very intresting information Robert.

I think you can training those dragonflys. fun.

Can you take them also in nature?

cdewet (0) 2003-11-23 6:35

Robert, this is sheer beauty, a true delight, glorious colours, also conveys size well sitting on your hand.

Georges (11183) 2003-11-23 9:59

Superbe couleurs .Une macro de toute beauté avec des détails très intéressant.

milloup (1829) 2003-11-23 17:09

Well, Bente *she* also likes this one, it's crisp and clear, DOF spot on as always. If you show just the dragonfly close up it gives the impression that they're enormous, but showing it like this gives an idea of the real size - which isn't really very big. And darters even smaller, and damselflies smaller still..

henrye (3498) 2003-11-24 5:12

Yes, this is very interesting because it gives us an idea of the size of these darters. This also makes me aprreciate your ultra close-up shots more! Your note is also very informative, thanks for sharing it with us.

emax (893) 2003-11-24 12:37

What an amazing colours it's adorn this insect. The sample of insect seems like painted. You know everything about insects. So exhaustive description we can not found them in any book. The pic is very clear.