Hairy Dragonfly

[Carol]

My first dragonfly of the season. I used F8 which I don't think gave enough depth of field. Need more practice.

Hairy Dragonfly by Carol Leather, on Flickr

Hairy Dragonfly by Carol Leather, on Flickr

[tesarver]

Re: Hairy Dragonfly

I think you are correct Carol

Tom

[supergeeman]

Re: Hairy Dragonfly

Nice detail in the 2nd

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[Stan]

Re: Hairy Dragonfly

f8 is about right, otherwise you tend to get too much detail in the background showing through. With the first you would have needed to move around in order to get the whole length of the dragonfly in the plane of focus, with the second, whatever aperture you would have been unlikely to get the wings in focus
I probably spent around 5 minutes shooting and moving to different positions to ensure the whole length was focussed

stan
The secret is taking time - for example with the mayfly posted,