Dragonflies Everywhere!

[Loupey]

The most abundant creatures by far right now.

The first three are of the same specimen on the same weed. Laying flat on my stomach, army-crawled for different backgrounds.

All with the 5D and 300mm f/4L IS and extension tubes (mostly just the 36mm tube). The last one with all three tubes stacked together (68mm of total extension).

[Cassie1]

Awesome images Loupey.

Cassie.

[AgingEyes]

Loupey, have you changed your style? It seems to me the colors of your recent photos are not as saturated as before.

[Loupey]

Cassie - I appreciate your comments, as always!

AE - I hope not But changed laptops recently and it has me rattled. So much so that I'm second guessing every image I do and I spend 2 days redoing all the images on my website last week.


Request to everyone: please see my updated website - if images there seem "off", let me know. It would be greatly appreciated!

[Cassie1]

Loupey - I have looked at your website and I must say your photography is amazing.

I looked at all the different sets of images and the colour looks perfect to me on my monitor. I even looked at some of your older threads against the images on your website and the colours seem exactly the same to me.

Cassie.

[scott-devon]

Wonderful series Loupey. Your website photo look fine for colour to me. I think the series of dragonfly shots here look less saturated simply because the backgrounds are soft pastel shades.

[dumpy]

Amazing, I love being able to see the face of a Dragon Fly. Nice work!!

The backgrounds work very well to enhance the overall image too.

[Loupey]

Cassie & scott-devon - thank you both so much for taking the time to review my site. I'm very appreciative of your efforts and feedback! I'm relegated to doing all my final post-processing work in only one office room. The interior colors/lighting at home or anywhere else tends to make the colors shift during my PPing and unnoticeable until I get to "that" room.

dumpy - thanks for the kind words.


scott-devon - I think you are correct regarding the effect of the lighter background. Here is a shot with a different background but with the same processing done at the same time. Incidentally it is of the same dragonfly as in #1, #2, and #3 - but as I originally found it on another weed before I frightened it off to where you saw it in the original post.

[Loupey]

One of my last shots from that particular day. My son was not happy to hear later that I did not save it. It stopped moving soon after I took this.

[Cassie1]

I think the series of dragonfly shots here look less saturated simply because the backgrounds are soft pastel shades.

Loupey - That's exactly what I thought. I really like the darker background in your latest image, it makes the dragonfly stand out more.

Cassie.