Many of you will know that I always like to get as clean a background as possible with my wildlife images and the opportunity arose today at Barnes wetlands to demonstrate how with some gardening and reframing a messy shot can become a clean one. We saw these two damselflies mating and knew as they were otherwise engaged I could take time to get the shot I wanted
This first frame, whilst the damselflies are sharp enough, they are not quite side on and due to lots of blades of grass behind them, there are a lot of distracting highlights. Really not worth keeping and only fit for the bin.
But by reframing and then removing all the offending bits of grass that are close behind the subjects it is possible to get a much more acceptable shot
both were at 1/20, f8, ISO 400, 100mm, hand held
I have not got a definite ID at the moment but they are probably common blue
Stan
This first frame, whilst the damselflies are sharp enough, they are not quite side on and due to lots of blades of grass behind them, there are a lot of distracting highlights. Really not worth keeping and only fit for the bin.
But by reframing and then removing all the offending bits of grass that are close behind the subjects it is possible to get a much more acceptable shot
both were at 1/20, f8, ISO 400, 100mm, hand held
I have not got a definite ID at the moment but they are probably common blue
Stan
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