White-faced Meadowhawk Dragonfly

[Chuck Milledge]

• NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D810
• 200.0-500.0 mm f/5.6
• ƒ/5.6
• 500mm
• 1/500s
• ISO 280
• C.A. Milledge III
• Flash not fired
• 41.036986666667
• -85.225363333333
• 228m above sea level
• Thu, 22 August 2024 5:54 PM
• 2024 All Rights Reserved
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 13.5 (Windows)

 

[Jonathan Ashton]

Chuck you have a large image 2040px x 2040px, I think we will shortly get some recommended guidelines on site and they will most likely be something like max width 1920px and max height 1600px, this makes for easier viewing and assessment on screen.
The image as presented appears to be oversharpened to me and DOF is rather limited, with a lens like the one shown above I would guess possibly F11 or thereabouts might give the desired depth of focus - depending upon magnification of subject in frame of course.

 

[Chuck Milledge]

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. I was about 30 feet away and hand holding a pretty heavy lens when I took the picture. Nothing like macro from a distance.

Edit: I primarily export at 2048 or 2040 for the long edge as that's the maximum for the long edge of an image on Facebook. It keeps the file size relatively small but still appears fairly well on screen. before their compression algorithm kicks in. If it changes, I'll gladly adjust though.