Common Whitetail Dragonfly on Milkweed leaf

[Chuck Milledge]

• OM Digital Solutions OM-1
• OM 100-400mm F5.0-6.3 + MC-14
• ƒ/9
• 560mm
• 1/1250s
• ISO 1000
• C.A. Milledge III
• Flash not fired
• Fri, 16 August 2024 6:06 PM
• 2024 All Rights Reserved
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.5 (Windows)

 

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hey Chuck welcome! Good to see someone else posting.
The dragonfly seems to be well focused and DOF is good. i would suggest that it is a little oversharpened - see the hairs on the legs and the leaf - they have a refractile appearance. I suspect you have made some masks during processing but the left forewing is incompletely masked - see the pale area the veination is almost missing. Composition -I see a tricky subject! maybe it would be possible to carefully remove the stemon the LHS.
Hope this helps.

 

[Alan Moller]

That is amazing; I can see the lines in the translucent areas of the wings.

 

[Chuck Milledge]

Hey Chuck welcome! Good to see someone else posting.
The dragonfly seems to be well focused and DOF is good. i would suggest that it is a little oversharpened - see the hairs on the legs and the leaf - they have a refractile appearance. I suspect you have made some masks during processing but the left forewing is incompletely masked - see the pale area the veination is almost missing. Composition -I see a tricky subject! maybe it would be possible to carefully remove the stemon the LHS.
Hope this helps.

Thanks! Very helpful.