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Ruddy Darter


Ruddy Darter
Photo Information
Copyright: Gert Ellstrom (ellis49) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3645 W: 350 N: 8890] (28681)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-08-05
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 20D, Sigma 180 Macro Ex H, Digital RAW 200
Exposure: f/9.0, 1/250 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes (Fill) Flash: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-08-25 8:25
Viewed: 1651
Points: 50
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Today’s psot is from my vacation in Värmland and it’s taken with my old camera and macro-lens. It’s a Ruddy Darter, Blodröd ängstrollslända., Sympetrum sanguineum. it's a male.
I took this a very hot day, I think the pose is a way to get some cool.
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The ruddy darter takes its name from its colour and its swift flight behaviour. The male dragonfly has a deep russet colour over the entire body and the abdomen has a pinched section close to where it joins the thorax. Females are slightly smaller, golden yellow in colour and being less obviously marked, are more difficult to identify than the males. There is more than one red coloured darter in the UK and they can be easily confused with each other. The commonest red species, the common darter, can be distinguished as having red veins at the base of the wings and a less ruddy colouration across the body. This is more readily visible when the insect is at rest. However, the ruddy darter has entirely balck legs, distinguishing it from all other red darters which have longitudinal yellow stripes on their legs. This feature alone cannot be used to identify the red darter, since immature black darters also have entirely black legs.

Source and More Info.

Sigma 180 Macro HSM EX , tripod, Fill-in flash.Sigma EF 500 DG Super.
ISO 200, Raw-format,
Convert, Levels, Contrast, Crop, resized to 800 pixels, USM on the B/W channel in lab-colours. I used Adobe Photoshop CS2 for PP
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Hi Gert!
Great pose of this dragonfly!! Very nice colours, sharpness and detail! Well done!

Regards,
João

Hello Gert!
Boy, looks like we're having a dragonfly party here. Excellent exposure, sharpness and background, very good compositionally choice of the square format. Congratulations,
Mark
P.s. I just took another look at my own dragonfly shot and I just hate that noise of which you have none in this picture.

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  • hansh Gold Star Critiquer [C: 184 W: 1 N: 393] (2011)
  • [2006-08-25 8:34]

Hello Gert.
A beauty in a nice obelisk statue. Very sharp with a nice smooth and blurred background. DOF is excellent and i like the POV very much. It could be a little brother of mine. Very well done andt thanks.
Gr. Hans

Hi Gert,
A very well captured df(top model of the TN) photo. I like the details on its wings. Congratulations.
Greetings
Fevzi

it seems we are having a Ruddy Darter festival at the moment.*g*
another amazing shot of this pretty dragonfly, gert! :-)
excellent composition with a perfect timing on the terrific pose
hanging on to the end of the stick with its tail in the air and
the wings spread out showing the wonderfully detailed structure.
well seen & captured, thorsten.

Superb catch, pose and bg! Great colours and details! pov, dof, sharpness all are wonderful!
Bravo!
Ersin

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  • Dando Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 643 W: 32 N: 790] (3052)
  • [2006-08-25 9:17]

Hi Gert, excellent macro. Very well composed with outstanding details, colours, focus and lighting. Very well done my friend and TFS.
Dean.

bonjour gert
certaines personnes disent que les libellules disparaissent et bien pas sur TN,semble t il.
le fond uniforme ne vient pas detourner le regard et nous laisse apprecier les details et la couleur de ce beau specimen.merci.
laurent

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2390 W: 194 N: 1991] (8113)
  • [2006-08-25 9:55]

Hello Gert,
Beautiful razorsharp image and the DOF is right on. Excellent pose this dragonfly is giving you. Very well composed with a great neutral OOF background.
TFS..Sky

Hi Gert,

Great details and POV. Fantastic.

Ken

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  • dew77 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5171 W: 297 N: 4050] (13069)
  • [2006-08-25 10:46]

Hello Gert,
Wonderful close up.Simple BG,vivid colors,POV and framing are excellent.Well caught and composed.
TFS...:-)

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  • MojoUK Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 65 W: 7 N: 328] (1479)
  • [2006-08-25 11:22]

Hi Gert,

This is a fabulous shot. Perfect DoF, excellent PoV and the ideal backdrop. What makes this one stand out for me though is the interesting pose of the Dragonfly.

TFS,

Mark.

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  • carper Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2167 W: 124 N: 2567] (8208)
  • [2006-08-25 11:44]

it's a beauty Gert.
the pose is great and the quality is very good, the light is perfect, well you did a very good job here.
gr. jaap

Hi Gert,
such a beautiful pose, very elegant.
I like your red darter, wonderful.
Now there are 3 dragons in a row at the preview, funny. Thanks for sharing
Sabine - wishnugaruda

Incredible shot. The colours are amazing.

Hi Gert,
this is an excellent shot. I like the pose of this dragonfly very much. As usual excellent sharpness, great colours, lighting and POV/DOF too. Very nice bg, excellent note and composition. Thank you my friend.
Gr.
Heinz

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  • wuta Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 871 W: 2 N: 606] (2034)
  • [2006-08-25 14:34]

Hello Gert , Anather great shot , very good details colours pose sharpnes pov bg tfs ,Good Weekend Teunie .

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  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2006-08-25 14:39]

Exquisite image Gert...

+ composition, POV, DOF, focus, color, clarity, notes, framing, background, lighting.

= nothing

Thank you and regards... Ricardo

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  • cosmln Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 196 W: 12 N: 465] (1816)
  • [2006-08-25 15:02]

Hi Gert,

WOW it is a so perfect image.
perfect sharpness and the BG is perfect for this fellow.

TFS,
cosmln

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  • mbasil Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 348 W: 146 N: 706] (3059)
  • [2006-08-25 21:18]

Wonderfully done, Gert. Great subject and a great macro recording of it. Not much to suggest for this wonderful shot, but maybe if you cropped a bit from the left you might get a stronger diagonal.
Mike

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3446 W: 144 N: 5883] (17434)
  • [2006-08-25 22:29]

Looks like an acrobat in a circus Gert. Excellent sharpness, which we do expect from you. All is well, Janice

Hi Gert

This looks great in the thumbnail and even better when opened up. The green OOF BG enhances this shot perfectly. I love those transparent wings. You show this beauty in lovely light. Good quality as always. Thank you my friend. Your images are always a pleasure to view. :-)

Hello Gert
Great close-up,nice details,lovely colours,sharpeness,BG and POV...very well done...TFS
Best regards

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  • jmp Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1836 W: 94 N: 2338] (8400)
  • [2006-08-26 6:23]

Hi Gert,
This dragonfly has a wonderful pose! I like a lot the composition, color and perfect blurred bg. Pov, dof and light are perfect too. Great portrait!
José M.

Hi Gert,Superb macro shot!Congratulations.TFS.Hilmi

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  • ddg Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 880 W: 23 N: 927] (4993)
  • [2006-08-26 9:59]
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Very nice capture and great composition. Great light here as well and the colors are rich and well saturated. How did you obtained this uniform BG? Best regards. Didier.

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