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| Praying Mantis Canon EOS 7D with a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens at 160mm EFL 1/250, f/8.0 & ISO 100 with twin off camera flashguns |
How does this work for a portrait of a Praying Mantis. Do you like the black background or should it be white? How about the soft focus on the stick it's holding onto?
Hi Steve,
ReplyDeleteI like the insect shots. I get more time for them than most other photos as they are just in my backyard :)
The only thing I'd like to see improved with this image is the detail in the head of the praying mantis. The backend has nice light and shows plenty of detail, but the head is a little lacking.
Is that because it's really shiny on the head, so it's difficult to get detail in there? Or is it just a resolution issue, in that you down sampled the image before uploading it?
How long was this specimen? I start to get creeped out after they get a bit longer than about 2cm myself. LOL.
Nice work balancing the flash units also.
Cheers
Craig.
Hi Steve,
ReplyDeleteI like like the background black rather than white, but there's probably not much in it.
The thing that stands out for me in this picture though is the way the mantis leans backwards, hanging on the underside of the stick. Mentally, I keep wanting to rotate the picture so the stick comes in from the bottom right and he sits on top.
Personally, I quite like the detail in the stick, but for a portrait, it's probably a little distracting.
And as Craig mentions above, his head's a little soft compared to the rest of his body.
Geoff.