Thanks, Dan! They are beautiful insects. Hope to get a male soon; they are spectacular! Just have to get one to sit still long enough...
;-) Cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> Sent: June 18, 2013 6/18/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO - Female Ebony Jewelwing She's a bearty. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:15 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Feel free to correct me if I have it wrong but I think I have the species > (and gender) right: Males have the irredescent green bodies, females are > brown or black with white spots at the wingtips. > > The males are much more spectacular but I only got a good look at two and it > was windy as hell when the male landed near me so I couldn't get a sharp one. > > Then I cranked up the ISO to 1600 for a fast shutter speed (I think this was > 1/320th) and narrow aperture (f11) for dof. I think I could have gone f16 > here as the tail is not as sharp as I'd like. > > And yes, it is noisy. > > Still, it's one of the nicer Jewelwings I've gotten: > > http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/06/female-ebony-jewelwing.html?m=1 > > Not Mark C. quality but we're working on it. Maybe next weekend I'll head > over to Etobicoke Creek again. I know what I have to work on. > > ;-) > > Hope you > > "For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and > spontaneity." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
