Thursday, July 18, 2013

Damselfly

From Photo of the day 2012

Took me close to an hour to get this shot - not because I had an active subject! I rescued this damselfly from near drowning in my kiddie pool and set him up on the wall of my house to dry, then got to work with my macro converter-lens setup. It works great, it just has a really shallow depth of field and at that size any slight sway will make parts in focus or out of focus. I couldn't use a larger aperture to help because I didn't have enough light. A tripod is the obvious solution but I have left mine in my office. I improvised with a 12 ft long 1X4 piece of lumber propped up against the roof of entry way and resting on the ground. I couldn't quite lean on it, but I could easily steady my hand and camera for the shot. Very sharp when you look at it close. I think its going to make it to the local fair. Now just to decide if I want to print it 5X7 or 8X10. Kind of depends if I really want to stick it on my wall. 

Enjoy!