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03-AUG-2006

8/3/06 - Blue Damselfly

Not cropped. Shot with a 75-300 Nikkor zoom plus a 1.4x TC and a Canon 500D closeup lens. I had to back off from 300 to 230 mm to keep from overflowing the frame. This was the equivalent of putting a close up lens on the front of a 630mm telephoto and shooting from two feet. At a focus distance of about 2 feet and a working distance (front of lens to subject) of only about a foot, I was surprised that the critter stayed put. With the relatively long exposure time of 1/10 sec, I took a number of these in the attempt to get at least one sharp one.

Nikon D70s
1/10s f/16.0 at 230.0mm full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Selma Sundholm18-Aug-2006 15:08
amazing...thank you