Dragonfly Macro

SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
edited July 7, 2006 in Holy Macro
During the 2006 PostShootOut, as many of you know I had the pleasure of travelling with 5 other Dgrin guys.

Jack brought along his 4X Drive, this particular day as we drove along in front of the RV a huge Dragonfly hit the windscreen and got caught in the wiper blades.

I was like beside myself with joy that the thing was still sitting on the car, and we were far enough in front of the RV to quickly pull over and check him out :clap ......... well unfortunatly the impact cut the poor guy in half, but you know me, I carefully got him off the blades and put him in a bag till we reached our destination.

This photo was taken on a wooden picnic bench with several Dgrin onlookers :rofl Canon 20D, at least one Kenko Tube with the Canon 100mm Macro and an External Flash with Difuser attached.

The picture is NOT Cropped in any way.

I wish this little guy had lived, but alas his little face will live forever more only in photos :rolleyes thanks for looking......... Skippy (Australia)

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  • nightingalenightingale Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins
    edited July 4, 2006
    Nice shot Skippy! The curves hack is working? Nightingale
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    nightingale wrote:
    Nice shot Skippy! The curves hack is working? Nightingale

    Hey there Nightingale......... yes thank you I remember you telling me that it existed on the 2006 ShootOut, and I went searching for it, and found it.

    I was thinking of going for Elements 4, but now that I have Curves in Elements 3, I'm really happy ... thank you again for telling me about it :D
    Skippy (Australia)
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,954 moderator
    edited July 5, 2006
    Cool shot, Skippy. thumb.gif I guess that's one way of making sure the subject doesn't move. lol3.gif

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    rsinmadrid wrote:
    Cool shot, Skippy. thumb.gif I guess that's one way of making sure the subject doesn't move. lol3.gif

    Cheers,

    Thank you :D yeah I wish he had of survived, I would have loved to have captured him alive.....but you make do with what ya got rolleyes1.gif least we got the best half rolleyes1.gif Skippy (Australia)
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  • boogieboogie Registered Users Posts: 553 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    Squashed is better than nothing!

    Glad you didn't come across any road kill...of the larger species. :D

    Or maybe you did?

    boogie
  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    Too bad the last thing that went through its mind was its butt... rolleyes1.gif

    Nice detail!
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2006
    Oh wOw what a macro :):
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    boogie wrote:
    Squashed is better than nothing!

    Glad you didn't come across any road kill...of the larger species. :D

    Or maybe you did?

    boogie

    Ohhhhhh but we did, but Jack wouldn't let me get out rolleyes1.gif Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Dalantech wrote:
    Too bad the last thing that went through its mind was its butt... rolleyes1.gif

    Nice detail!

    Yeah he was just a beautiful colour, at first I thought he was just stuck between the blade and the shield, because the upper part of his body was intact, but when I got out of the car to try and free him......... well let's just say he was already in Bug Heaven :cry poor little fella.
    Ya gotta Luv Da Face though iloveyou.gif:D Skippy (Australia)
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    Oh wOw what a macro :):

    Thank you Awais, those Kenko Tubes are worth every cent I tell you thumb.gif
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  • HauerHauer Registered Users Posts: 550 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Wow, very impressive, Skippy!
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  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Now that IS up close and personal! Great shot.
  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Herman Auer wrote:
    Wow, very impressive, Skippy!
    Cheers - Herman

    Thank you Herman...... that was my one and only encounter with a large Dragonfly .... Skippy (Australia)
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    Thusie wrote:
    Now that IS up close and personal! Great shot.

    Hahahaha...... I couldn't get any more personal, I had the best half rolleyes1.gif
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2006
    I'm glad you got a big dragon Skippy. I'm also glad you've had some time to process a couple of your files, I've been looking forward to seeing your work.
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 7, 2006
    gluwater wrote:
    I'm glad you got a big dragon Skippy. I'm also glad you've had some time to process a couple of your files, I've been looking forward to seeing your work.

    Awww shucks ......*blush*blush*...... well my laptop has been totally cracking the wobblies with me, so the going is slow at the moment.

    Your not gonna believe this but, on my forced leave days this week I got out the DVD I brought last year from USA about PhotoShop Elements and I sat and watched it again, and by golly gosh, I actually learnt something rolleyes1.gif how cool is that hey rolleyes1.gif see I knew if I watched it I would get something out of it mwink.gif and I found that link finally to the hack to put Curves into PhotoShop Elements 3, so I'm really pleased.

    Take Care Nick.......... Skippy (Australia)
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