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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on September 09, 2014, 01:15:00 am

Title: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Chris Calohan on September 09, 2014, 01:15:00 am: I was amazed watching this guy pluck one dragonfly after another off the ends of twigs. They are soooooooo quick and as seen by the photo, so deadly.
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on September 09, 2014, 03:53:12 am: Nice capture, Chris. It's interesting to think that something so relatively big could be so quick.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 09, 2014, 09:12:52 am: Quote from: kikashi on September 09, 2014, 03:53:12 am
Nice capture, Chris. It's interesting to think that something so relatively big could be so quick.

Jeremy
I agree.
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: NancyP on September 09, 2014, 10:29:08 am: Great fun! Faster than a fish - that's easy. Faster than a dragonfly - that's harder.
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 09, 2014, 01:32:50 pm: I wonder if he's "faster than a speeding bullet." :D
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: maddogmurph on September 10, 2014, 01:41:19 pm: I feel like this illustrates the same problem I always have photographing the egret. The white feathers blow out and I lose detail in the highlights. They reflect light so brilliantly you almost need to bring them into studio to get the feather detail, add a scrim, get the lighting down. Damn birds never want to pose for portraits though... plus there probably aren't enough dragon flys there for them...
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: ripgriffith on September 11, 2014, 01:22:17 am: Two Comanches are sitting around a campfire roasting a chicken. One says to the other, "Try it, you'll like it; it tastes just like rattlesnake".
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 11, 2014, 01:09:23 pm: How about this version:

Two Snowy Egrets are sitting around a campfire roasting a chicken. One says to the other, "Try it, you'll like it; it tastes just like dragonfly". ;)
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Chris Calohan on September 11, 2014, 01:27:56 pm: And I thought my All Hail the Mouse submission was off the wall...
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on September 11, 2014, 05:23:22 pm: Quote from: Chris Calohan on September 11, 2014, 01:27:56 pm
And I thought my All Hail the Mouse submission was off the wall...

I thought Mickey looked just fine in that one.
Title: Re: Tastes Just Like Chicken
Post by: Chris Calohan on September 11, 2014, 07:02:30 pm: Me too. To get the background, I had to wait for a UPS truck to amble by. Cheap tricks are the best.