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Friends,
After my picture of solo Damselfly doing a balancing act, here comes a picture of the the pair. With such a fine setting at the Karanji Lake butterfly park, we actually saw at least 3-4 mating pairs. This one was seated on the edge of a leaf, giving full uncluttered parallel view.
Damselflies are very sensitive to movement and they can fly around in this formation to a far away plant. Hence I had to approach this very carefully and slowly. I set up my Tripod taking time and cut some of the leaves that were cluttering the background. The pair was sitting there all the time. I took many pictures as the Sun played hide and seek. Unfortunately, those taken under bright light showed significant reflections from the leaf supporting the pair. Hence I chose this picture taken under cloudy conditions providing soft light.
Again, took conscious decision to shoot at F11 to get the entire pair in focus. I was lucky to have the pair perfectly in line, giving me a flat area to focus.
They remained there for nearly 15-20 minutes.
Regards,
Murali Santhanam |
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- Amadeo
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(3323) - [2008-10-24 10:08]
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Hola Murali, buen macro, con una preciosa composición, nitida, con buena luz tonos de color saturados pero muy atractivos.
Un saludo
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- nagraj
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(4878) - [2008-10-24 10:15]
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hi murali,
beautiful capture, read the comments, yes, lucky you are in many respects but good that you have worked hard for this amazing image. sometimes everything works fine for you and had to grab that chance, you did very well. tfs.
nagraj.v
Hi Murali,
Beautiful shot of these lovely damselflies
Excellent compo, colors, POV and DOF
TFS Thijs
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- PeterZ
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- [2008-10-24 12:22]
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Hello Murali,
Very beutiful photo in splendid colours and pin-sharp. Perfect BG. A pity is the white spot in the righ corner below. Great composition and POV.
Have a great weekend,
Peter
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- iris
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Hi Murali
The picture attracted me first as i saw the damelflies did bear resemblance to one i shot recently. I 'm yet to find a mating pair of damsels and i see you were lucky to find piars of them.
This is a lovely composition presenting good details, with a nice PoV.The well saturated colours do very well for me...I love that buttersmooth BG you produce.....the leaf jutting out as perch makes the composition quite attractive.
Thanks for sharing
Cheers
Silpa
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- mariki
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- [2008-10-25 1:44]
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Hello Murali,
Very nice capture of this pair damselfly mating. Good focus and DOF. Beautiful composition and colours.
Cheer,
Mariki
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Hi Murali,
Your efforts has reaped reward, nice picture of coupling damsel flies, I like the perch which just apt for perfect picture, also good back ground.TFS.