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Challenge: Free Study 2010-07 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Mason Neck, VA
Date: Jul 10, 2010
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Nature, Insects, etc
Date Uploaded: Jul 11, 2010
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A dragonfly sunbathing in a patch of light alongside a woodland trail. In the dark woods it was like he was in a spotlight; it was an unexpected place for me to find a dragonfly, far from the water, and it felt rather magical to stumble upon him. He stayed put while I took several shots ... like he really wanted someone to photograph him in his spotlight ;-)
Loved how he sparkled and how the long lens and the light combined to make the background disappear. A bit of a dramatic dragonfly shot.
Had the 2X teleconverter on.
PP - tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.096, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1), darkened shadows and reduced noise on tonemapped layer and merged with original at 20% transparency, burnt stray bits of tonemapped light in background, cropped, increased saturation overall and again on non-red/orange, resized, sharpened, hand sharpened a little on foreground wing edges, added border. |
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