Difficult!

Thanks to my friend, John Green, for showing me this cool dragonfly infested location!

But this is always fun. The light and location made things challenging, so I was lucky to catch one shot of this beauty coming in for a landing.

Interesting how there is an odd piece of wing behind the dragonfly. The A7r4 seems to have this issue with a hummingbird in flight shot once in a while. I really cannot explain it.

So, I was shooing uncompressed raw files, with the crop sensor turned on. This gives me 900 mm @ f6.3. The image file size is still a good 51 MB., and very useful.

I did bump up the f-stop to f9, to create more sharpness and depth of field.

With this scene, I backed up the lens to 717 mm equivalent. I was lucky to have a background in the shade, so the subject really stands out. 1/1600 of a second shutter speed was just enough to freeze the wings.

In hindsight, I was kicking myself for not using the A9 camera, at 3200 ISO for more shutter speed, and about the same amount of noise, with the bonus of 20 frames per second.

Can't think of everything!

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