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experiment 3
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Copyright: jaap polak (carper) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2009 W: 122 N: 2581] (8424)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-07-30
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon 350D, Sigma 70-300mm Macro Super II 1:4-5.6
Exposure: f/16, 1/125 seconds
Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-08-01 13:10
Viewed: 1129
Points: 62
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Sympetrum vulgatum

Vagrant Darter Dragonfly.
Adults. Adult body about 33–36–39 mm long. Average wingspan 60 mm; hindwings 26–28 mm long.

The eyes dorsally narrowly apposed to dorsally broadly contiguous; brown, or red (or reddish brown). The narrow black band at the base of the frons conspicuously continued for some distance down the inner sides of the eyes.

Thoracic antehumeral stripes present to absent (if detectable, less conspicuous than in some other dragonflies); brown (somewhat paler against the brown thorax). The wings spread more or less horizontally in repose; dissimilar in shape and venation; sessile; very briefly suffused with colour at their bases only. The tinting amber (or saffron). The inner wing venation (reddish-) brown. Discoidal cell divided longitudinally into a conspicuous triangle and supra-triangle. Antenodal veins in the forewings 6–8 (fewer in the hindwings). Pterostigma reddish brown, or red (ruddy, and black edged).

Abdomen linear from a conspicuously swollen base, or swollen both basally and distally and markedly constricted in between; 24–28 mm long; predominantly crimson red (in the male), or green, or yellow (olive-yellow, in the female); plain, or predominantly transversely banded, or complexly patterned (apart from median black dashes on segments 8 and 9 of both sexes, which are characteristic of the genus, males have lateral yellow spots on segments 2 and 3, and narrow yellow bands between the segments); without mid-dorsal spots. The male abdomen without auricles on segment 2; with a single inferior anal appendage.

Nymphs. The nymphs stout, the body expanded in the middle; when mature, 17–18 mm long.

The head in dorsal view markedly narrowing from immediately behind the eyes. The postocular lobes curving smoothly to the back of the head from immediately behind the eyes. The antennae 7 segmented. The mask having the prementum hollowed dorsally. The prementum bearing 28–30 major setae (14+14 to 15+15). The body of the labial palps bearing (10–)11(–12) major setae. Legs longer than the abdomen.

Adults on the wing early July to early September.

Classification. Anisoptera; family Libellulidae.

General comments. Not illustrated. A very rare species, readily distinguishable from S. striolatum by the narrow black band at the base of the frons being continued down the inner sides of the eyes. The nymph has not been recorded in Britain.

the interesting note I found here

This one I try with an experience from me. I took it with the canon 350 with the sigma 70-300 macro lens and placed there fore the canon 500d close up lens. Well let me I tell you that I was very surpriced over the result. I took the shot in raw on tv and I like the result I hope you like it to. It was taken with a monopod and on my birthday. taken with 400asa
gr. jaap
leboistoo, sAner, hansh, marhowie, aido, wishnugaruda, cecilia, wallhalla15, pilonm, SkyF, jmp, blakitan, jhm, red45, peter_stoeckl, pablominto, dew77, firelord, Janice, Pentaxfriend, Alex99 has marked this note useful
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HI Jaap,
excellent shot, I love this big eyes and you are soooo close. We had the same idea to show a dragonfly today ;-)
Thanks for yours, so sharp and beautiful
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2169 W: 218 N: 4383] (14900)
  • [2006-08-01 13:44]

Very nice macro, Jaap!
Great details, good lighting (not too strong), i like the tight crop and the POV. Maybe a bit more sharpness wouldn't hurt, but still a succesfull experiment :)
Bravo and TFS
Horia

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  • sAner Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1490 W: 72 N: 1427] (4744)
  • [2006-08-01 13:51]

Wat een portret Jaap! Dit is ECHT dichtbij. :) Hele mooie kleuren en goede compositie. Over het algemeen ook scherpe details. Well done & TFS!

Regards,
Pieter

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  • hansh Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 207 W: 1 N: 116] (500)
  • [2006-08-01 13:55]

Dag Jaap.
Hele mooie close up, dat je zo nog maar verder mag experimenteren. De details van de kop zijn prachtig te zien, een klein scheerapparaatje zou hem niet misstaan. Prima werk en bedankt.
Gr. hans

Hi Jaap,
Awesome detail in this dramatic closeup.
Very good POV, nice color and good light.
Great job with this "experiment" # 3.
TFS!

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  • aido Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 1044 W: 156 N: 1218] (4046)
  • [2006-08-01 14:14]

Hello Jaap,
Happy Birthday for July 30! And this is what you're really good at. I'm always amazed by Dragonfly's eyes, they are so 3-dimensional. A great macro shot, great detail and textures, I think the DOF is a little shallow though, evern at f/16. It must be an effect of your close-up lens. Nice work.
Regards,
Adrian

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  • hester Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1515 W: 18 N: 3165] (11638)
  • [2006-08-01 14:16]

Great macro shot. Excellent details. They are not so pretty close up :-)

Excellent detail, but really love the different viewpoint.
Well done...

Hello my friend,
this is a fantastic supermacro! Great sharpness, details and very nice colours. As usual an excellent note from you. Thank you for posting.
Gr.
Heinz

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  • pilonm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 548 W: 90 N: 871] (2919)
  • [2006-08-01 15:22]

Hello Jaap,

Very good macro of this dragongly! But at f/16 I thought that more of the body should be in focus. But it remains a wonderful close-up! The colors seems very natural too! Great shot and TFS,

Michel

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  • wuta Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 856 W: 2 N: 617] (2142)
  • [2006-08-01 15:23]

Hallo Jaap , Wat een beauty , lief koppie heeft hij mooie kleuren details pof en bg , prachtig ,Groeten teunie .

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2233 W: 188 N: 1929] (8127)
  • [2006-08-01 16:07]

Hi Jaap,
this is close, Very nice sharpness and the details...wow!
Very well done.
TFS..Sky

Hi Jaap
Great shot with excellent sharpness. I like it very much. Very well done and thanks.
Cemil

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  • jmp Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1740 W: 95 N: 2273] (8411)
  • [2006-08-01 17:11]

Hi Jaap,
A success experiment that reveals the head anatomy of this dragonfly. Big head!
José M.

Hi Jaap,
Excellent shot. Sharp with great details. Nicely composed.

Ben Lakitan

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  • jhm Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 649 W: 0 N: 178] (628)
  • [2006-08-02 1:56]

Dag Jaap,
Misschien ben ik iets laat, maar toch mijn gelukwensen met uw verjaardag, en mogen er nog veel volgen.
Van een monster gesproken, ongelooflijk hoe een klein insekt er zo kan uitzien, is wel eens mooi om dit te mogen aanschouwen, de structure de kleuren, zeer goed werk geleverd Jaap.
Groeten,
John.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2006-08-02 1:59]

Hi Jaap!
Very succesfull experiment! Extremally close macro, good details and sharpness. I like POV and reflection on its eye. I think it needs shaving :-)

Hello Jaap,
very interesting experiment, that looks quite dramatical and exciting.
Just an idea for further experiments: significantly shorter focal length of optics would provide more depth of field.
Certainly a very pleasing survey of these fascinating details that become visible in super macro.
And, sorry a bit late: happy birthday to you!
Thank you! Best regards,
Peter

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  • pvs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1168 W: 261 N: 3035] (13835)
  • [2006-08-02 3:42]

Hallo Jaap,

Mooie macro van deze libelle,ze zijn erg in trek de laatste tijd,ik heb er van de week ook al 2 opgezet en sabine zojuist ook een,in ieder geval een smiley waards
Paul

Hello Jaap,
Wow! I guess this is about as close as you get..!
Awesome reproduction of those eyes, details are very good and the image is very educational...
Great colours in this fine photograph!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 4774 W: 294 N: 4020] (13209)
  • [2006-08-02 8:39]

Hello Jaap,
Very nice macro.It's very close and well detailed.I liked POV,details,DOF you managed and framing a lot.Excellent work!
TFS...:-)

hello Jap
what a splendid gallery you have in TN !!!
i have no enought time to put picture in TE, TN and TL but it's always the same pleasure to come back see all these beauties here !
this one is great.
have a nice day
alain

Hello Jaap,
This is very close! Maybe a little soft, but still lots of details are visible.
Great job!

Hallo Jaap
I dacht dat je gestopt was met posten op TN maar las ergens van je macro op deze libel en ik moet zeggen, prachtig kunstzinnig gedaan weer met een korte dieptescherpte. Als hier meer kunstzinnige benaderingen met OOF worden toegelaten, zou ik beter met mijn natuur fotos terug naar hier komen. Vertel me, zijn ze hier wat toleranter geworden ?
Ik heb er net nog ééntje op TE gezet.
Henk

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  • osse Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 962 W: 0 N: 89] (7801)
  • [2006-08-05 6:42]

Nice macro shot Jap.
Great sharpnes, details, light, colours and POV.
Well done Jaap

osse

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  • mbasil Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 336 W: 149 N: 745] (3304)
  • [2006-08-06 13:02]

Amazing macro, Japp! Thanks for sharing your wonderful shot and the technical tips, too.
Mike

The result isn't super-sharp like you might expect on a dedicated macro lens. I guess we shouldn't expect too much of a close-up lens. But I can't really see where the point of focus is on this photo. Keep trying!

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2006-08-12 5:56]

Hi Jaap, good to see you visiting us again. I've been away, so I'm just getting back into TN!!
What a monstrous head you show us here. So big and sharp, and all those macro details we can see. Good one!
Janice

Hallo Jaap
experiment 3 lijkt mij uitstekend geslaagd.
dit is een Pracht cadeau.
je kan zelfs zijn neusharen tellen
Excellent shot

Gr Thijs

hi jaap
qu'elle magnifique macro,details tres presents,la netteté sur les yeux et la tete est parfaite.super.
laurent

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3584 W: 143 N: 5669] (18531)
  • [2007-02-04 8:34]

Hi Jaap.
Amazing close-up, taken with help of interesting set of lenses. Great magnification ratio, wonderful reproduction of the dragonfly face and its expression. Nice colours and exposure. I welcome any experiment. They enrich both you, and us. My compliments and TFS.
Alexei.

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