About the Image(s)

This image is of a Blue Dasher dragonfly. It was taken at a pond located in my backyard. I wanted to get a closeup that provided as much definition in the details as I could. Although I was able to get a few images of it in flight they were too soft due to motion and focus blur. I like the definition in the body and wings in this picture. It was taken at f /8 at 1/1600 at ISO 8000 at 400mm. I have a Nikon Z8 camera and was using my 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lens. Camera was mounted on a tripod.

I use On1 Photo Raw for my post processing. I applied both noise reduction and sharpening to the Raw image. I also added a little Dynamic Contrast (similar to Clarity in Lightroom) and cropped in on the image. I also added a very subtle vignette to the image.