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The Morning Sunbath
The Morning Sunbath
Techo


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Challenge: Bokeh IV (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Date: Aug 29, 2007
Aperture: F8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Sep 3, 2007

 Shutter Priority. F8, 1/200sec, iso400, no flash, handheld.
Full frame shot, not cropped. Really nice bokeh for F8 huh ;) That's the macro lens working its wonders, being able to come in this close. The Damsel is very tiny compared to a common Dragonfly. They're very slender as you can see and less than 2 inches long.

You can really see how tiny they are in comparison to the beach grass. One of my favorite shots from the day:


A Free Study outtake. I would've wanted to supress the bright highlights in the grass reed. But decided to go with the really closeup macro for that one (//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=582311).


This one though does have nicer bokeh. The exposure was right on. Underexposing the shot would've made the damsel too dark and the background too noisy when making the shot brighter. There's a trade off here. The white line is inevitable unless I took two shots, and underexposed one by a lot and then combined the two captures. Something I could've done for Free Study EE.

Statistics
Place: 10 out of 364
Avg (all users): 6.6272
Avg (commenters): 8.2857
Avg (participants): 6.5814
Avg (non-participants): 6.6747
Views since voting: 2251
Views during voting: 252
Votes: 169
Comments: 13
Favorites: 1 (view)

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AuthorThread
 09/13/2007 10:41:18 AM
Techo!!! You are THE BOMB!!! Man, look how you can see every single little fuzzy hair on his little head and back -- and every little vein in his wing!

WOW!

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 09/12/2007 09:28:44 AM
You're on a roll, man. Great finish.
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 09/12/2007 05:44:52 AM
Superb work!!
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 09/12/2007 03:25:20 AM
Solid finish bud, congrats
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 09/12/2007 12:45:43 AM
awesome capture techo! i expected this to come in top10
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/11/2007 10:10:40 PM
Detail, lighting comp and bokeh - well done.
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 09/11/2007 10:15:26 AM
great! 9
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 09/11/2007 06:25:44 AM
Hmm, now where have I seen lots of ribbon winning dragonflies before? PugH? A very familiar style, but a nice image. I don't like the black bar borders though.
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 09/10/2007 11:52:51 PM
wow! this is a cool looking picture. were did you get this idea
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 09/09/2007 03:45:28 PM
beautifully crisp and clean composition.
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 09/07/2007 05:05:05 PM
Excellent! 7
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 09/07/2007 12:32:53 AM
beautiful blue
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 09/05/2007 02:59:18 PM
Great detail! It almost looks like he's chromed.
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