Cabin Fever

Mark EdellMark Edell Registered Users Posts: 672 Major grins
edited January 21, 2008 in Holy Macro
What do you do when it's the middle of winter, there are no bugs to be found and you are dying to shoot some Pictures? Well I go to the pet store ask them if I can have one feeder cricket (boy, you should have seen the look when I did that) and bring it home to practice with.

Well, a makeshift studio, two halogen lights, some store bought greenery and a cardboard box later, this is what came of it.





Ahh, I feel better now! :rofl

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  • MaineMomMaineMom Registered Users Posts: 17 Big grins
    edited January 20, 2008
    Very cool!
    I have some laundry that needs to be done... rolleyes1.gifhee hee
    ~Jayne
  • Mark EdellMark Edell Registered Users Posts: 672 Major grins
    edited January 20, 2008
    MaineMom wrote:
    I have some laundry that needs to be done... rolleyes1.gifhee hee
    ~Jayne

    Laughing.gif, You must have been talking to my wife. She said something similar.
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  • CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Beautiful.thumb.gif

    Cuong
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Good thinking- I like it.
    Sometimes think these are more interesting than the mantids people feed them to but wouldn't say that about the lizards :)

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  • garytgaryt Registered Users Posts: 335 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Nice job, Mark. Necessity is the mother of invention. Good shot.clap.gif
    Gary
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Mark Edell wrote:
    What do you do when it's the middle of winter, there are no bugs to be found and you are dying to shoot some Pictures? Well I go to the pet store ask them if I can have one feeder cricket (boy, you should have seen the look when I did that) and bring it home to practice with.

    Well, a makeshift studio, two halogen lights, some store bought greenery and a cardboard box later, this is what came of it.

    Ahh, I feel better now! rolleyes1.gif

    What did you do with it after the shoot ??? :D
    Well he is probably very very thankful that he didn't become Lizard food.

    Nice looking upper body, especially around the head thumb.gif

    Thanks for sharing .... Skippy :D
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  • Mark EdellMark Edell Registered Users Posts: 672 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Skippy wrote:
    What did you do with it after the shoot ??? :D
    Well he is probably very very thankful that he didn't become Lizard food.

    Nice looking upper body, especially around the head thumb.gif

    Thanks for sharing .... Skippy :D
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    Thanks Everyone.
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  • bchaplinbchaplin Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    Praying Mantis(es)
    Has anyone every bought a praying mantis as a pet / photography subject? I think this would be a really fun way to learn to take macro shots. I wonder how much work they are to keep, and how much the set-up would cost?

    It would be a low-commitment pet, too. Unlike fish, they are supposed to die after a year, right?
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2008
    And if it was an underachiever, you could buy a bigger one and feed the looser to the new girl!
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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