Mantis - Phasmomantis sumichrasti

GOLDENORFE

first shots of my new mantid species,
100mm macro for full shots, full flash f8
mpe @ x3 mag & x4 mag for portraits
all focus stacked 5-8 frames

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DeVil

Wow! Excellent!

jpc

Great detail!

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful series- you managed to get very good eye detail showing in the last which seems to be very hard to do with mantids.
Brian V.

Ambrola

Those are great shots. You just don't know how hard it is to shoot these guys! They are huge. Wonderful composition and angles. Those close ups of the face must of been tough?

Debashis_A_ghosh

Excellent series.

GOLDENORFE

thanks for comments everyone, appreciated

Ambrola wrote: »

They are huge.
Those close ups of the face must of been tough?

only about 2 inch for male, 3 inch for female still only small !
alot more growing yet!

portraits were very easy, they just sat not moving for quite some time,
one did climb onto the lens a few times

korandoke

a alien , well done

greetings,

Korandoke

Ambrola

I have one living in a shrub thats about 6 inches long. It is a green color, that matches the shrub perfectly. I have to look very hard to find him, but he's always there. I tried to photograph him, but he is just to big.

GOLDENORFE

Ambrola wrote: »

I have one living in a shrub thats about 6 inches long. It is a green color, that matches the shrub perfectly. I have to look very hard to find him, but he's always there. I tried to photograph him, but he is just to big.

well just shoot part of him!

NomadRip

Those are fantastic!