Dragonfly on Perch IV

[amrannoordin]

Hi all. I am new here. This is my first contribution here. Critiques are most welcome.

 

[michakac]

I like light in this shoot .
Great colors-so juicy.Nice shoot

 

[cgipson1]

Nice shot! You should try shooting them while they are flying! Fun!

 

[kyrontf]

Cool stuff. I like the blur on the wings.

 

[Overread16 4]

Welcome to the forums amrannoordin - and a great start with a good shot of dragon

You might want to use image tags in the future however - just put :

[ img ] paste photo url here [ /img ]

without the space and it will place the photo into the forum as now shown above in your original post where I put the image tags around the direct url link for the photo for you.

Hope to see you around the site and good shooting.

 

[joealcantar]

Cool shot and welcome to the forum, I like the colors in the shot.
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Shoot well, Joe

 

[arkipix1001]

very nice...

 

[amrannoordin]

Thanks, very much Overread, for the editing and HTML tip. Very much appreciated. Wasn't sure how to go about doing that!

Thanks very much to all the kind words. Yeah, I like the light and colors (bokeh) very much.

Charlie: Flying dragonflies? Been trying.... never been successful

 

[jrice12]

Image is too small (and low res) to give much CC. Terrific background, nice simply geometry and good subject isolation. Motion blur on wings gives a sense of action. Perhaps the subject scale is on the small size (might have cropped a bit tighter).

 

[cgipson1]

Charlie: Flying dragonflies? Been trying.... never been successful

check out some of my threads in the Macro section.. even have some tips on it.... http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/macro-photography/256194-practicing-aerial-captures.html

 

[amrannoordin]

@jrice12: Thank you for the feedback about the need to crop. I didn't want the dragonfly to overwhelmed the whole photo when I composed it. Personally, I find closer crops to be constrictive. I also avoid cropping further during editing. So most of my shots are actually uncropped. It is just a personal preference But I understand your point. Thanks again

@cgipson1: Yeah I did check out your threads. Very interesting. A friend of mine managed to do that on his maiden macro outing. That has always bemused me

 

[cgipson1]

Yes... I shoot a lot of Dragonflies. Have several large ponds right across the street from where I live, so it is convenient. Funny about your friend!

 

[heroes19]

Wow, very good composition and the bokeh effect. Clarity and sharpeness is well done, but a bit over-saturated.

 

[amrannoordin]

Thanks for the critique, heroes19