Beginner Close up on Migrant Hawker Male.

[Orangecroc]

Dragonfly blue 2 by Ben Gray, on Flickr

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Great tonal range… but a tad too soft!

 

[Orangecroc]

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Great tonal range… but a tad too soft!

I hadn't noticed that, Another shot taken at the same time further away actually seems much sharper.
Dragonfly blue 1 by Ben Gray, on Flickr

 

[Kodiak Qc]

Another shot taken at the same time further away actually seems much sharper.

Yes but not at the right place!
If you did focused on the dragonfly, the sharper area,
as I see it, is the twig!!!

Either…

1. the focus point was not precise or
2. there is a back focus issue

 

[Orangecroc]

Yes but not at the right place!
If you did focused on the dragonfly, the sharper area,
as I see it, is the twig!!!

Either…

1. the focus point was not precise or
2. there is a back focus issue

Odd, I see the thorax in focus, but the legs on the twig are not. I will have to check the RAW file in the nikon software to see where the focus point was when I am at home.

 

[Orangecroc]

The focus point on the first one is at the shouldersin the center. The second one is dead on the head, I still don't see the head out of focus as you do.

 

[GardenersHelper]

They look sharper over at Flickr (as do all our images I think). I don't think it is a matter of out of focus but rather very narrow DoF, which at f/5.6 is not surprising. It does mean that most of the subject is soft.

FWIW my overall impression of the first is (and my first impression was) that it is soft, and my overall impression of the second is that enough of it is sharp/clear enough not to give me an overall impression of softness (I would prefer more within the DoF, but that is a different, personal taste matter - the overall impression of softness, or not, feels like more of a cognitive/physiological/perceptual matter).