Mantis On Display

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited January 1, 2015 in Holy Macro
These are shots of the mantis whose portraits I posted earlier. I wanted to show the whole insect in some kind of habitat context. I think that I must have changed my viewing position for the second one slightly to get the hotel wall as a background.

Ideally, a different angle for the first one would have made the leaf less prominent but I can accept the leaf as a price for the mouthparts being extended.

EM-1 (manual mode) Kiron 105mm, probably f11 or f16, TTL flash, 1/200 ISO 200.

Harold

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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2014
    Both lovely captures
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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2014
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    Both lovely captures
    Brian v.

    Thanks, Brian.

    I'm sending that lens off for repair today. The diaphragm has been sticking wide open increasingly frequently. It has given superb service and I hope to continue using it. That my back-up is a Leica 60mm macro says it all.

    Harold
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2014
    Here is a closer crop of the first one, removing distracting, bright leaves.

    Harold

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2015
    Second one is simply great!
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Second one is simply great!

    Thanks. I got more or less what I intended. That doesn't happen often enough.

    Harold
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