Some darter dragonfly shots

Lord Vetinari

Darter dragonfly shots. The male darter on finger shot was interesting. It was doing it's territorial thing by the pond and would not let me near it. After the umpteenth time of scaring it off, I stuck my finger in the air (not in frustration) and it came down and landed on it and then did not mind me moving it towards the camera.

Brian V.

Chrissiebeez_NL

jowsha! the first and finger shot are nice!! you might scare the ladies with the finger shot though, give you a manicure in an instant

Really love the colours and compo in the first shot!

Shades of Hyperion

Amazing shots. I really like the composition of the first one.

Mark Edell

Cool shots! I love the one with him on your finger. You must not drink coffee.

Carmelo75

I join the crew: the first and finger shots are the best! Amazing! bow

I would push the contrast and color of the head close-ups a bit more...

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the comments

Chris - agree - I have gardening hands/fingers

Mark - I drink lots of coffee

Carmelo - you are probably right re the colour of the last ones for a bigger impact, but I'm a bit of a purist now re colour and normally don't play with it for bug shots apart from colout temp correction on flash shots.

Brian V.

PhotoDavid78

excellent shots as usual. I'm really getting into the macro thing

Lord Vetinari

dtw78 wrote:

excellent shots as usual. I'm really getting into the macro thing

Thanks for the comments
Macro is rather addictive
Brian V.

commonjunks

Very sharp and clear.
I am newbie in macro, would like to know you setup (if you don't mind).

Lord Vetinari

commonjunks wrote:

Very sharp and clear.
I am newbie in macro, would like to know you setup (if you don't mind).

Thanks
Lots of info om my setups here http://www.flickr.com/groups/topic/66514/