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Teneral Male Four Spotted Chaser

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I realise that the background is a bit fussy, but I wanted to capture the light refraction in the wings, and I think the bg helps this.

Monopod used

Photographer:	X Albert Conroy
Folder:	Animals
Uploaded:	04-Jun-2006 21:47 CEST
Current Rating:	10.00/2 View all ratings Delete my rating
Model release available:
Camera:	Olympus E1
Exposure time:	1/320
Aperture:	f4.9
Focal length:	566
Lens:	50-200mm + 1.4 tc
Focusing method:	iESP P-AF
ISO:	200
White balance:	Auto
Flash:	no
Image format:	RAW
Processing applied:
Various:
Image resized to:	547x800

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Teneral Male Four Spotted Chaser

Yes the light is interesting and the wings are quite well detailed. I like the colors a lot, usually this kind of greens come after ps color balance but hardly out of camera. The DOF is about right, perhaps slightly distractive grass trunks, but not much. I am a bit surprised to see these kind of shots with 50-200. Mine always come out a bit soft, especially with 1/320 or so. Well done,

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Sergey Green at 17:18 CEST on 05-Jun-2006 [Reply]

Beautiful....!

Excellent shot Albert, very sharp and beautiful light...
Here we can see the quality of the E-1 in combination with the ED50-200 plus EC1.4
I refer to Sergey because he is surpriced but he is shooting with an E-500...I also have both these camera's the E-1 and the E-500 and my conclusion is that the E-1 is better in these kind of shootings...and you proved it again..

Best regards,

Fonzy - at 19:55 CEST on 05-Jun-2006 [Reply]

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Sergey Green wrote:
> Yes the light is interesting and the wings are quite well detailed. I like the colors a lot,
> usually this kind of greens come after ps color balance but hardly out of camera. The DOF
> is about right, perhaps slightly distractive grass trunks, but not much. I am a bit surprised
> to see these kind of shots with 50-200. Mine always come out a bit soft, especially with 1/320
> or so. Well done,
>
> -
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Thanks Sergey for your comment - yes you are correct I did increase the saturation slightly in pp, but that was in order to enhance the colours in the wing. I don't know if it may help you but when I use a monopod with the 50-200mm, I do not use the tripod collar supplied with the lens as I find it more difficult to hold steady.

Thanks again

Albert

Albert Conroy at 22:50 CEST on 05-Jun-2006 [Reply]

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Fons van Swaal. wrote:
> Excellent shot Albert, very sharp and beautiful light...
> Here we can see the quality of the E-1 in combination with the ED50-200 plus EC1.4
> I refer to Sergey because he is surpriced but he is shooting with an E-500...I also have both
> these camera's the E-1 and the E-500 and my conclusion is that the E-1 is better in these
> kind of shootings...and you proved it again..
>
> Best regards,
>

Thanks for your comment Fons - the dragonfly had just emerged and the imago was lower down the reed. I agree with you regarding the E1 - I think the difference may be due to the quality of the pixels in the E1. I also have an E300 and I struggle to get the same quality in close up pictures.

Regards

Albert

Albert Conroy at 22:54 CEST on 05-Jun-2006 [Reply]