Black Darter

I took a visit to a new local location today – Christchurch Common, in search of some Black Darter Dragonflies.  After a good hunt round this large heathland reserve, I finally found some females around a small pond.

I used my manfrotto befree tripod to steady the shots of the darters on the heather.  And even managed to get a 5 image stack of one of them over the heather.  This is the result of the stack from Helicon Focus.

Female Black Darter on Heather - 5 Images Stacked
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/3.2, 1/160 sec, ISO200)
Female Black Darter on Heather – 5 Images Stacked

The other macro – or should I say close up images of these small dragonflies ( the UK’s smallest in fact ), are all single images.

Female Black Darter on Heather (4)
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/4, 1/200 sec, ISO400)
Female Black Darter on Heather (4)
Female Black Darter on Heather (3)
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/3.5, 1/160 sec, ISO200)
Female Black Darter on Heather (3)
Female Black Darter on Heather (2)
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/4.5, 1/125 sec, ISO200)
Female Black Darter on Heather (2)
Female Black Darter on Heather (1)
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/4.5, 1/100 sec, ISO200)
Female Black Darter on Heather (1)

 

Black Darter Head On
Canon EOS 760D (100mm, f/5, 1/100 sec, ISO400)
Black Darter Head On

Chris

I've been taking macro photography from 2004. I use both Canon film and digital cameras.

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