This is the kind of shot where macro is so difficult. The DOF is not quite deep enough for showing the mantis well, but the background is wonderful. For me, the large dark part of the flower really steals my attention away from the subject.
It is a wonderful subject and sounds like you had quite a few shots with it. I wouldn't mind seeing a few of the others. -- Bruce Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 11:36:16 PM, you wrote: BM> http://www.members.aol.com/figgaro/mantis.jpg BM> Been messing with shot for a while now. This is just BM> one of many versions, the tighteset crop of all. BM> Mantids are common up here in the foothills. This one BM> was very fun to shoot. I wrangled him and moved him BM> around quite a bit and he didn't mind much and he BM> never tried to fly away. BM> Note: he was, in fact, gray, not green... BM> MZ-S, VS1 105mm Macro, probably f5.6-f8, Elite Chrome. BM> -Brendan BM> ____________________________________________________________________________________ BM> Do you Yahoo!? BM> Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail. BM> http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
