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Paul Kister's picture

Early Morning Green Darner / Lord of June

An early morning visit to a local tidal marsh yield several dew laden dragonflies. Slowly and carefully I navigated the the channels of tall grass to my best positioned subject. Within several feet I set my camera on the tripod and began composing different images with the appropriate lens moving closer and closer till finally I was attaching my 50mm macro and entered my subject’s world up close and personal. Carefully moving in and shifting angles caring not to disturb it or the dew covered grass.

35mm Film / 50mm macro f/3.5 full frame image (no crop)
Kodachrome 25
Tripod / ballhead
Scanned @ 3200 dpi and saved as .dng format
Post proceed mostly Adobe Camera Raw
Final in PSP fine tuning, resizing, unsharpen mask and .jpeg formatting for Internet display.

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