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Close-up of a nice fresh female.

Taken at Priory water 05/05/09
· Date: Thu May 7, 2009 · Views: 890
· Filesize: 76.8kb, 485.9kb · Dimensions: 1100 x 957 ·
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Keywords: Large Red Damselfly Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Camera Information: EOS 400D + Sigma 150 EX DG macro
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Maccattack1
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Fri May 8, 2009 8:59am

Lovely detail esp the eyes . Looks good larger too.

When I take these the eye is often slightly unsharp although in theory I was focussed on the eye and should have had enough depth of focus.Is this because the eyes move more than we think ??



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Fri May 8, 2009 12:38pm

Thanks Malcolm,



The way the compound eye of a Dragon or Damselfly is made up often leads it to look out of focus when it is not, especially as the patterns/colours within the eyes are quite random in their arrangement, Large reds have those horizontal lines across the eye that help to give more clarity to the focus when viewing the image.

This was taken using a setting of f8 @ 1/500th sec at 400 ISO, which is more than enough D.O.F to get the whole insect pin sharp.

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Fri May 8, 2009 2:02pm

Thanks for the info , I find these ancient creatures endlessly fascinating.



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