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Dragonfly Portrait

I spent some time imaging insect portraits along the shore of Lake Drummond in Great Dismal Swamp in Suffolk, Virginia, USA. This Dragonfly was perched on some vegetation and would fly off and return to the same plant, allowing me several chances for a good image. This is a 2:1, at the sensor, macro. For this image, I used my manual focus Tamron Adaptall-2 Model 52BB SP 90mm f2.5 Macro Lens and Tamron Adaptall-2 18f 1:1 Tube and Tamron Adaptall-2 01f 2X Flat Field Teleconverter with attached Tamron Adaptall-2 Pentax K A Mount, all mounted to Pentax K20D Camera, hand held, manually focused by moving the entire assembly back and forth, Shake Reduction set to 200mm, ISO 400, f8 on lens, 1/180 sec, with fill-in flash from camera's built-in electronic flash. This is a Full Resolution Large JPEG and is Straight Out Of Camera (SOOC) and is without any post processing, editing, adjustment, cropping, or re-sizing.
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3 comments

David Lloyd said:

Spectacular result, from my favorite lens as well. You've used it well!
11 years ago ( translate )

Pam J said:

WOW !
11 years ago

David Lloyd said:

superb image.
11 years ago ( translate )