Dragons with GoldenOrfe

IPClark

As already mentioned by Phil, we headed out to some reserves that are not too far away at all from me. Had a good days shooting. Very interesting to see how the macro photographers with those crazy MPE's work

Anyway, here's a small selection of the images taken today (have more to process hehe)

Dragon Portrait - This is a crop of course. Slightly off centre but I'm still very pleased.





This is a natural light shot. Had to open up to F5, ISO 400 to get a decent shutter speed (of which I got a 1/125th)



Phil's Finger! (see his set of shots for his angle on this lovely little Dragon). Natural light again, 1/200th this time.

GOLDENORFE

good series ian, you got a good angle on my finger! lol

natural light shot best as i expected cant beat nl for larger bugs

IPClark

Cheers Phil. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised with the NL shots. my ageing 400D handled the natural light very nicely at ISO 400. I suspect this would be down to the more open aperture as even ISO 400 looks a bit nasty at smaller apertures. Wonder how 800 would look in similar condtions and exposure settings.

IPClark

Another set from todays shoot.

They seem to have suffered somwhat with some excess black areas which I think have impacted the quality somewhat. That said, I'm still pleased with them.

This is the flash used version of the first natural light shot in my first post. I have to admit, I prefer the natural light one



Background on this isn't as nice as I would like


A little closer on the side profile


Think she was warming up a little as she didn't fly away


Not a Dragon, but in the location, there were hundred of spiders. I noticed this one shoot out and grab the fly that got caught in the web. Took a quick snapshot really.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely series - looks like a good outing !
Brian v.

IPClark

Cheers Brian. Indeed was a fun day.

opoyo

wow,sharp and i like the light so natural