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Challenge: X Marks The Spot (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Pentax K200D
Lens: Sigma 70-300mm f4-5.6 DG MACRO for Pentax
Date: Sep 26, 2009
Aperture: f8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/2000
Date Uploaded: Sep 27, 2009

Cropped, minor adjustments in Irfanview.

Hand held, manual focus.

Silly title.

JuliBoc: Thanks for commenting/noticing! The righteousness of consigning shoehorns to the basement!

After too many not very successful attempts with my noisy whirry clunky autofocus on the cheap zoom, I went on a manual kick: the Pentax is just light enough that I can hold it, with the light zoom, in one hand, and handle the focus ring in the other - for just about the amount of time it takes to zero in on a few takes, I need a while to warm up my eye/eye coordination - see the real one, find the lensed one: I spend almost an hour in our drying up pond on these sessions. - Something to take my mind off missing smoking - I quit a month and a half ago.

Statistics
Place: 71 out of 79
Avg (all users): 4.9055
Avg (commenters): 6.6667
Avg (participants): 4.8889
Avg (non-participants): 4.9121
Views since voting: 729
Views during voting: 283
Votes: 127
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)


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03/13/2010 03:33:51 AM
Wow! Captured in flight - awesome!
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10/25/2009 07:43:05 AM
Fantastic capture. I'd like to get one like this some day, but for some reason there don't seem to be so many dragonflies around during the summer as there used to be.

Those blue spots on the tail are really cool, aren't they!
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10/22/2009 11:11:12 PM
This is just excellent. Maybe not for the challenge voters, but the actual shot of the bug is perfect. If it is cropped, I would have probably tried to leave more space on the right side , moving the subject bug so that it appeared to be moving into the shot.
That's great timing and quick focusing to get such a fine shot on an airborne insect. I shoot some like this too, and it is sort of a crap shoot to get a good one like this.
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10/05/2009 03:05:42 PM
I can't believe the score for this wonderful shot is in the 4's! I voted very high on this one because I know how difficult it is to capture a dragonfly in flight. Manual focus too! Wonderful! I see the x in the wings. Maybe if you called it x-wing... ? :)
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10/05/2009 07:31:52 AM
Wow, how did you capture a flying object with manual focus? Or was it already captured by a spider web? jk :) I think the colors are wonderful. Don't know why you're down here in the basement.

Yes your title would have fit mine well. I think it's a funny play on words. (I'm dislexic and do that kind of reversal all the time. :))
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
10/04/2009 12:52:50 AM
From this angle the X is not terribly evident, though it is there, but what a catch!
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10/03/2009 04:46:17 PM
The title does not count AS a challenge topic in my book, although I like the picture.
I'm still not sure what to do with this for voting. Or maybe I'm missing something.....?
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10/01/2009 08:34:02 PM
The X doesn't pop out at me. Other than that, it's great - good detail, the very blurry background IS working for me in this case (looks almost like parchment), and good subject placement (NOT dead-center). 7
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09/28/2009 08:17:41 AM
Having tried to shoot something like this before, I know how very difficult it is to get one of these in flight. Well done!!
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