Dragonfly

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"Dragonfly", August 1998


-- Dave Herzstein (dherzstein@juno.com), September 29, 1998

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Very nice picture. Where did you take this picture ?

Recently, I took the picture of a red dragonfly in my yard. Yours is quite different from mine. I have never seen it.

My picture is in the special gallery of my HP, http://www.geocities.com/~yuritt/fine_image.html

Regards, Kaoru

-- Kaoru Yuli (kaoruy@oneplace.com), September 29, 1998.


This is a donderfuly sharp image my only quibble is the background, it is very bland and draws away from the subject. Other than that you have a fantastic image.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), September 30, 1998.

I disagree about the background, I think it is washed out rather nicely and doesn't distract at all. It is a nice sharp image . One improvement could be made on the composition in moving the subject off dead center and place the body more on an angle.

Mark

-- Mark (Grafphoto@aol.com), September 30, 1998.


This picture was taken at Birch Lake, just outside of Yosemite Nationa Park. I used a 300mm lens and 1.4x extender with a 25mm extension tube to enable closer focusing, about 2 meters. I shot a whole roll of film that morning, but most of the dragonfly photos had them perched on twigs and branches (distracting). To see my other dragonfly photos (including enlargements), chick he re.

Thanks,
-Dave

-- Dave Herzstein (dherzstein@juno.com), October 01, 1998.


I don't like the dark left edge and think it should be cropped off. The out of focus background is fine; however, I say that the stem is part of the foreground subject and as such it is distracting that it is out of focus. Otherwise, the dragonfile is nicely done.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), October 01, 1998.


I disagree with Paul. You could crop off some of the left edge, but not because the slightly darker background areas are distracting, but rather to place the fly a bit off-center for a better composition. I also think the way the stem is curving around, gradually coming into focus out of the background is lovely!

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), October 03, 1998.

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