Praying Mantis

[Michael Lloyd]

I lucked on to this guy this afternoon.

EOS 1DsMKIII
180mm macro with ring light.

1/200 second
f16
ISO 800

[Chris Starbuck]

Michael,
(awed silence)...

What a shot! Nothing to pick on; great framing, lighting, DOF, etc. Makes me really glad these things are only a few inches long. This one looks like it's about to taste your lens.

Chris

[Julie Kenward]

Very nice! I think you got more focus on the mouth than the eyes but at f16 it's enough to make it a strong image anyway! If anything, I'd give it just a hair more room at the bottom for that elbow joint to be in the image.

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent capture Michael.
Its tack sharp, with excellent color rendition, the placement of your subject in frame is just perfect...good show...:cool:

[Joanna Trescott]

Great shot. These are not easy to photograph! I love the BG and you got both its' antennae in the frame!

[Michael Lloyd]

Thanks everyone. When I saw the background through the viewfinder I said "oh wow" out loud :D At this point I'm not sure what the background would look like if it were in focus but it hasn't been altered.
(boink) my single memory cell just fired. I took that shot almost pointed straight up into the late afternoon / early evening sky.

It's funny how shooting macro tends to force a person to look at the detail of the shot at a higher level than normal.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Michael, very cool pose, love it.