For the five summers I lived in Tochigi, this kind has been the most common dragonfly. However, this year there have been very few. In the past, you'd see literally thousands during the days during several months, but this year they've been pretty much absent. Very strange.
Woohoo! Top 10. ;-)
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Best picture in this challenge, i'd love to know some things though..... how did you get so close without scaring it off, do you know what kinda of AF you were in and was it alive.
This is a species that lets you get close; they'll even land on your finger sometimes if you hold it up.
AF? Manual focus. Cropped off wing at right and some of the sky.(Head was at centre.)
Alive, of course.
[quote=hotpasta] amazing...and without a macro 1:1 lens...this is brilliant [/quote
I had a old pentax lens, 35-70 and it also had a "macro" option probably just like his. Its not like crappy lenses today that have a macro switch that does about nothing, if his is like mine, the barrell rotates, extends and locks..... effectively becoming an extension tube built in. So he may have been at 1:1. Man i miss lenses like that.
Best picture in this challenge, i'd love to know some things though..... how did you get so close without scaring it off, do you know what kinda of AF you were in and was it alive.
amazing...and without a macro 1:1 lens...this is brilliant
Well, actually I've discovered that this favourite little lens of mine isn't on the lens list, and I've listed it wrong. It's a Sigma Zoom 28-80mm 1:3.5-5.6 II Macro, which can be clicked into macro mode at 80mm. I don't realy feel like asking it to be added to the list because then I would have to change a lot of lens details in my portfolio. ;-Þ
I HAVE NEVER SEEN A DRAGONFLY THAT CLOSE UP BEFORE!!! HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?!?!?!?!?!?! WONDERFUL PICTURE!!!! You can even see the light in the dragonflys eye, which is amazing. I had no idea that is what they really looked like up close, and now that I see them, they are not as cute as I thought they were.
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