Some garden dragonflies

[LordV]

Some dragonfly shots from the garden. #1 is a 3 shot panorama.

Brian V.

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[skylab]

Great shots Brian, and a DIF shot to go as well.
#1 is stunning.

[bromm]

Great series with the DIF topping it off, excellent!:D

[macro junkie]

dam your good on that camara,,hey brian i have Q..heheh whats new i hear u say:lol: u know your pics u click on them to enlarge..how are u doing that?

[bandit 1]

Hiya Brian,

Excellent shots, love the DIF but my fav is the Pano, seamlessly done.

Cheers for now
Mark

[Attic]

Great colour Brian. usual 1st class images. The inflight is stunning.

[LordV]

Thanks for the comments everyone- much appreciated :)

macro-junkie- because the codes are interpreted if I post them here or in a PM, pm me an email- address and I will send you an example code. I just have a text file on my desktop that I copy and paste the pic urls into when I'm doing it.

brian V.

[lcpete]

Hi Brian Superb again my fav is no 1 too and an in flight too
I'm not 100% sure but I think the first 3 are a Southern Hawker
Pete

[PrimoPup]

I love that guy flying..... Nice shots LordV

[LordV]

Thanks PrimoPup and Pete for looking and commenting. :)
Pete think you are right on the ID.
brian V.

[eccles]

Yep, it's a southern hawker male. He got a bit shy in shot three and looked away. Great set Brian and I'm envious of the inflight shot.

[racketman]

great panorama, maybe 200mm better for flight shots?

[hidden forms]

Excellent shots:D:D

[dreamline]

Superb as always Brian.

The panorama is my favourite, closely followed by the DIF.

[LordV]

Thanks again for the kind comments everyone :)
RM- think you are right re the 200mm for DF's in flight- just couldn't resist trying just with the sigma 105 though as the DF was making regular trips around the pond and landing in approximately the same place.
Brian V.

[Raikyn]

Awesome :)

I must admit it is the first I've heard of macro panoramas, but it does make so much sense. A new experiment soon :D

[LordV]

Awesome :)

I must admit it is the first I've heard of macro panoramas, but it does make so much sense. A new experiment soon :D
Thanks :)
I often take multiple shots of bugs either for focus stacking or for stereos so trying a panorama seemed to be an obvious thing to do. Needed if you get stuck with a large dragonfly and an MPE-65 lens :)
I use autopano pro to put them together but suspect a lot of the other pano software will work fine.

brian V.

[LindaB]

Lovely shots Brian - you are lucky to have some DF's in your garden, they seem a bit few and far between this Summer unfortunately.

I would agree with RM with regard to using a 200mm, but you have to go with whatever lense is on at that time and see how it goes ay, so a good result for you :-)

Linda