Photography Thailand Forum

[canon]

Today this fellow decided to seek shelter from the looming rain and it was time again to test my nearly
resolved lens problem. Only a slight diminizing highlight correction in the red and blue channels together
with a setting of 83 in unsharpend mask was done. After it was floor cleaning time.

[Renato]

Great shot and the colour is superb. Next time I see a dragonfly I will try to look closely, never realized that they are so colouful.

[David Salmanowitz]

Canon--Nice shot but to my eye it looked a bit too bright and I thought the foreground was bright as well, and took me away from the insect. Out of curiosity I very quickly opened up the shot with Photoshop, and went to layer/new fill layer and made the color grey and in the mode setting opted for color dodge. I really was not sure what I was doing  as I am not a Photoshop expert. I do not necessarily like the purplish foreground that came to be, but I do like the darker insect and the really saturated colors it has--maybe that is why I always liked Fuji Velvia film as the colors were quite saturated. If I knew what I was doing I would have made the foreground a neutral color, just not so bright. What do you think of the insect now, or should I have just left it alone? In hindsight, maybe the colors are too dark in what I did and yours are the truer colors. I hope you do not mind me playing with your photo, but if you ever think anything could be different with one of mine please let me know!

[canon]

David thanks for your comments and no worries for playing around with it. I did actually bring the shadow all the
way down and upped the highlight about 5pct to make it look slightly darker. Nor am I an expert in Photoshop
and I am sure it could probably be done better. The purple tint from the floor must be a reflextion from the
outside light or a ray from the sun. I agree it doesn't look that appealing. Somehow to me with your darker
dragonfly, it appears smaller in your picture than mine and the green's seem abit too dark whereas your
background is more suitable for this image than mine I think. Have a good day.

[David Procter]

maybe somewhere in between?! Only kidding. The colour and the geometry of this insect are stunning.