Mating Dragons

y0ngcheng · 30th May 2004

After so many hunting of dragons, finally i've manage to hunt down a pair of mating dragon and a close up of Orthetrum sabina. After chasing the mating dragons using crawl, prone, jump, stand, and squat, decided to give them a "private" time and i went home happily.

Enjoy!

f/11@1/125

f/11@1/200

As usual! Handheld, 70-200f4l + 25mm ext tube attached on 10d!

oeyvind · 30th May 2004

not bad... ^^

1st shot: next time, try tilt your camera a bit.

y0ngcheng · 30th May 2004

Originally Posted by oeyvind

not bad... ^^

1st shot: next time, try tilt your camera a bit.

noted....

megaweb · 31st May 2004

ya try side view would be better .. can see more background

y0ngcheng · 31st May 2004

Originally Posted by megaweb

ya try side view would be better .. can see more background

noted. quite excited when taking this shot. so forget alot of things

Garion · 31st May 2004

Good catch there y0ngcheng. As mega had suggested, try moving your lens such that its parallel to the plane of the mating dragonflies (i.e. wings of the uppermost dragonfly point directly at you), would improve your shot that way. Keep shooting.

sonix · 31st May 2004

Finally u got the shot of the .... ugly dragonfly

hahah

well done

y0ngcheng · 31st May 2004

thank you garion and sonix. will imrpove my shot next time round.

sonix : juz realise that amk wp got alot of this and not in sbg lol. but they're very very very very active

sonix · 31st May 2004

Suggestion: Bring a lot of stick... put near the pond sure all the dragonfly will stop by.

But don't use my monopod... heng ar.. i took my monopod liao hahaa

ed9119 · 31st May 2004

very nice .......and refreshing...tilt looks ok wif me

y0ngcheng · 31st May 2004

thank you ed9119

sonix: next time lend me ur monopod again..

jenrine · 1st June 2004

okayy..FINALLY..u got it! it's nice..bud well..hope u can catch more of mating dragonflies and thn show us de improvements! jiayou!

30th May 2004	#1
y0ngcheng Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 新加坡 Posts: 1,800	Mating Dragons After so many hunting of dragons, finally i've manage to hunt down a pair of mating dragon and a close up of Orthetrum sabina. After chasing the mating dragons using crawl, prone, jump, stand, and squat, decided to give them a "private" time and i went home happily. Enjoy! f/11@1/125 f/11@1/200 As usual! Handheld, 70-200f4l + 25mm ext tube attached on 10d! __________________ "I want to have the best camera in the world and shoot XMMs."

30th May 2004	#2
oeyvind Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 3,556	not bad... ^^ 1st shot: next time, try tilt your camera a bit. __________________ flickr

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megaweb Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: East Posts: 8,106	ya try side view would be better .. can see more background __________________ See my Photo Gallery at the Clubsnap \| Pbase

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Garion Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: West side of S'pore Posts: 5,512	Good catch there y0ngcheng. As mega had suggested, try moving your lens such that its parallel to the plane of the mating dragonflies (i.e. wings of the uppermost dragonfly point directly at you), would improve your shot that way. Keep shooting. __________________ [ deviantart selections \| Photoblog ]

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sonix Member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sengkang Posts: 1,314	Finally u got the shot of the .... ugly dragonfly hahah well done __________________ My humble gallery

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ed9119 Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Singapaore Posts: 1,600	very nice .......and refreshing...tilt looks ok wif me

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y0ngcheng Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: 新加坡 Posts: 1,800	thank you ed9119 sonix: next time lend me ur monopod again.. __________________ "I want to have the best camera in the world and shoot XMMs."

1st June 2004	#12
jenrine New Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: yishun Posts: 8	okayy..FINALLY..u got it! it's nice..bud well..hope u can catch more of mating dragonflies and thn show us de improvements! jiayou!