Blue Tailed Damselfly
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Posted 27/07/2024 - 17:31
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Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Posted 29/07/2024 - 09:42
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Superb nature photograph - well done on gaining POTW.
Posted 29/07/2024 - 11:02
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Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
prsjnb wrote:
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Brian
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Posted 30/07/2024 - 00:00
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BrianN wrote:
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
prsjnb wrote:
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
Posted 30/07/2024 - 10:32
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Congratulations on POTW and very well captured and portrayed..tommy t.
Posted 30/07/2024 - 16:25
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drofmit wrote:
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
BrianN wrote:
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
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Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
Thanks for clarifying
Posted 30/07/2024 - 22:40
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prsjnb wrote:
Thanks for clarifying
drofmit wrote:
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
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Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
prsjnb wrote:
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
Thanks for clarifying
prsjnb, I have six acres of water meadow that I run as a private reserve... we have both pumilio and elegans on site and I am recording the biodiversity [we are in a ZNIEF... basically an SSSI but, sadly, with even less protection]... so I use Djikstra and the Biotope guides and online sources... however, if you look at the Lewington illustration of the immature male in bright sunlight, you can see that it is green... just.
Lewington's illustrations are always A4 upwards apparently, so probably some colour got lost reducing it to 55mm!!
Never be afraid to talk about your techniques...
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
"Give a thousand photographers...
the same camera, lens and scene...
and you'll always get a thousand different takes!!"
Anon.
Posted 03/08/2024 - 14:44
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drofmit wrote:
prsjnb, I have six acres of water meadow that I run as a private reserve... we have both pumilio and elegans on site and I am recording the biodiversity [we are in a ZNIEF... basically an SSSI but, sadly, with even less protection]... so I use Djikstra and the Biotope guides and online sources... however, if you look at the Lewington illustration of the immature male in bright sunlight, you can see that it is green... just.
Lewington's illustrations are always A4 upwards apparently, so probably some colour got lost reducing it to 55mm!!
prsjnb wrote:
Thanks for clarifying
Quote:
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
BrianN wrote:
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
Thank you prsnjb. The closest match I could find with my own research was actually called a Blue tailed damselfly. It was taken resting on a Holly hedge in my back garden in Sittingbourne Kent on 21/07/24 I believe. The colours are pretty much as seen in the photograph. Only light editing in Lightroom tweaking exposure, contrast and vibrance. Standard noise reduction and sharpening. Plus some darkening of the edges to remove distracting highlights.
prsjnb wrote:
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
Excellent framing and execution.
May I ask where this was photographed and which form you believe it to be as I have been unable to find a match in My field guides or on the BDS website. Are the colours 'natural' or has the saturation been boosted post capture?
I think this might be an immature male Blue-tail [Ischnura elegans] because, despite I.pumilio being just the other side of La Manche, all the main blue colour here is on segment 8 of the abdomen, in I.pumilio it is all on segment 9.... and the immature I.elegans has a green thorax
Thanks for clarifying
prsjnb, I have six acres of water meadow that I run as a private reserve... we have both pumilio and elegans on site and I am recording the biodiversity [we are in a ZNIEF... basically an SSSI but, sadly, with even less protection]... so I use Djikstra and the Biotope guides and online sources... however, if you look at the Lewington illustration of the immature male in bright sunlight, you can see that it is green... just.
Lewington's illustrations are always A4 upwards apparently, so probably some colour got lost reducing it to 55mm!!
Posted 21/08/2024 - 13:18
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Excellent picture! Well done!
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