Dragonflies

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Alan

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Fortkentdad

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This one is rather drab as dragonflies go but sitting pretty on some geraniums in the evening sun.

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The second one is the handle on our little hand spade.
 
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Blacktop

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I have a question about dragonflies.

Do some dragonflies have naturally lubricated eyes? The reason I ask, is that when I shoot certain type of dragonflies, I can never get the eyes tack sharp, and yet on some other species I have no problems at all getting tack sharp eyes.

For example, this species, the eyes always look wet. The black spots look washed out.

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cwgrizz

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Blacktop said:
I have a question about dragonflies.

Do some dragonflies have naturally lubricated eyes? The reason I ask, is that when I shoot certain type of dragonflies, I can never get the eyes tack sharp, and yet on some other species I have no problems at all getting tack sharp eyes.

For example, this species, the eyes always look wet. The black spots look washed out.
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Oil spots on your sensor? Ha! JK
 
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gustafson

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Blacktop said:
I have a question about dragonflies.

Do some dragonflies have naturally lubricated eyes? The reason I ask, is that when I shoot certain type of dragonflies, I can never get the eyes tack sharp, and yet on some other species I have no problems at all getting tack sharp eyes.

For example, this species, the eyes always look wet. The black spots look washed out.

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Not sure about lubrication, but the dragonfly in your photo is the blue dasher, and I've gotten the occasional photo of it with the compound eyes resolved, but it's admittedly hit or miss though trying to nail the focal plane shooting handheld at wider apertures. What gear and technique do you use for such shots?


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