Red Damselfly - another added

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Hi all

Our first visit of a Damselfy to our pond, it rested on our 'Hot Lips' plant and stayed just long enough for me to creep in on it :)

Canon 760D - Laowa 2x Macro - Twin Flash- 1/200 - ISO 200 - f18 - around 1.4x

Thank you for looking :)


Red damselfly by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr
 
Nice to see a red one, we just get blues and shades thereof. Not that I'm complaining though, just wouldn't mind a red one. :LOL:

Cool image Gav.
 
Dale. said:
Nice to see a red one, we just get blues and shades thereof. Not that I'm complaining though, just wouldn't mind a red one. :LOL:

Cool image Gav.
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Thank you Dale, I normally get a few here using the pond, fingers crossed for more, might have to try adding something for them to sit on for better BG :LOL:
 
Much easier on a high blade of grass or reed, with the background at least 10 feet away. Get down low too.

I see you were at f18. Is that the lens +TC or can you open it up more.
 
Dale. said:
Much easier on a high blade of grass or reed, with the background at least 10 feet away. Get down low too.
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I'm going to look for reeds, wish my garden was that big, but low I can do :LOL:
Dale. said:
I see you were at f18. Is that the lens +TC or can you open it up more.
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The Laowa 100mm 2x Macro lens will go to f22, does need flash use at these settings though.
 
Gotcha. (y)

I just had a look at the lens, it's a nice one.

Try opening it up, my damsel yesterday was at f5 on a Canon 100 f2.8L. I always manually focus bugs. A wider aperture will give you more light and should negate the need for flash, you'll get a mushier background too.

Sorry if you knew that already. :)
 
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