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Hi back Ron Westbroek , my Olympus friend
I just love your picturesas you know, but now I just need to get you some of critique . So, it will be perfect shot Ron, if the eye of the dragonfly will be sharper, the eye is a bit out of focus, I see them when I zoom it closer , you can try to too keep your pictures free of the noice of sharpness- if you use Lightroom classic , so you can use mask there to remove the sharpness noice form the background , you can remove the noice too by Adjust brash using..
@Christophe Berche would have great ideas , how to improve the two points in the picture as I think , profecionally
but beautiful shot Ron, just could be better after small improving

Maybe some of adjusting the higlights and more contrast would be take fine work too ,and the picture will be more enjoyable for an eye ,

Hi nataliaflejszar&Photo, I cannot follow your critique related to the noise and sharpness since I've taken similar pictures some days ago and know, that the color setup and noise level is really good and represent the dragonfly very good. The critique about the eye is ok... it is really slightly out of focus. But that's really interesting since my pictures were also now an then out of focus although I've place the spot focus exactly on the eye. Maybe the cameras have some problems with the focus on an eye of a dragonfly?

Hi Ron Westbroek, I really enjoy your picture. It really looks similar to the one which I've taken the last days.



You've chosen a very good position to get the whole dragonfly in focus. From the head up to the end. Really good. Your nice blurry background is also very pleasant to me.

Ron Westbroek said:

Hello nataliaflejszar&Photo , I don't like criticism, no that's a joke.
You will only take better pictures of that.
I had also seen that the eye is not completely sharp and can make it even sharper by selecting only the eye.
I also know where it is because when I took the photo and many other macro photos it was very windy 🌪and because I stack them you sometimes have a chance of movement and certain parts are not super sharp.
Sorry will pay attention to it from now on.

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Sorry dear Ron Westbroek . I know it's hard to take pictures like this one ,and need so lot of practic.. . I'm not able take better picture as it right now , but I belive you can .
I would like to take own dragonfly pictures when it will be only possible, but I've didn't seen them here still , in last summer some of only.. I just live in wrong climat

Do you have this photo in RAW format or as JPG taken in camera? if you want to, you can send me as original by messanger in FB, I can give try with to improve a bit if I get something , when I just find a time , it will be quite nice Ron Westbroek
I just really like your pictures and we both love Olympus brand

Ron Westbroek said:

nataliaflejszar&Photo Here is the Original, live it up

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thanks Ron Westbroek for a change , I'll give a try ,
lot of editings from the forum already, from around of the world . but it's funny