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The 150-600 telephoto is a good tool for getting close up photos of insects and other critters. This is a small collection of dragonfly pictures I took last week. I generally have the lens and camera mounted on a monopod with a ball head that has the mount plate at a 90° so as to give the lens a gimble actiion. It takes a bigger monopod to handle the weight of this lens and camera so I have an alumininm Sirui P-204S with an aluminum three footed base (chicken foot). It isn't quite the same as trucking around a tripiod but it's still a load. Celithemis eponina or Halloween Pennant Erythemis simplicicollis or Common Pondhawk Erythemis simplicicollis or Common Pondhawk Libellula luctuosa or Widow skimmer Hummingbird Moth Hemaris Diffinis_Aug 06 2020
Being dissatisfied with the photo of Dawson Bridge I went there today to see if I could revisit that shot. The fog wasn't thick enough to obscure the opposite end of the bridge so that idea washed out. As I was packing up to leave I looked up the river and had to take this picture. What the raw file looked like. The clouds and the reflection off the river create some strong diagonal lines that give some perspective to the picture. The thing that stops the composition is the entire right side of the image is the dark bank of the river and the messy naked trees along the bank. What I'll do here is go through my editing process in order to record how I tried to make something better from this image. All adjustments made in Capture One. Xrite color checker shot. As shot. In the white balance section I pick the eye dropper and select one of the neutral grey squares. After picking the grey neutral square. After picking the white balan...
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