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Preening Mantis

Postby Bugeyes on Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:48 pm

Praying Mantis

Archimantis latistyla

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Canon EOS 40D EF100mm f2.8 USM Macro @ 1/250th sec f16 ISO 400
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby Geoff on Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:29 pm

Great shot! :)
Preening mantis hehehehe.
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby wheels on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:01 pm

Yeah, nice shot. Target of opportunity or set up? (asking because of the lighting - obviously set up you have a lot more control than opportune target) Ring flash or no?
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby Bugeyes on Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:22 pm

Cheers guys, I found this little guy on my clothesline, tried to pick him up to take inside, but he wanted nothing of that and promptly flew into a shrub. No ring flash just the onboard popup, the light background is from our colour bond steel fence.

more shots can be viewed here
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:20 pm

Bugeyes, would this be a self portrait :shock: :lol: :lol:

Excellent capture
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby Joshman on Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:30 pm

a truly fantastic amazingshot, i am continually amazed at the quality fo pictures that people can get from this lens... put the poor man's macro setup to shame. :D

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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby RDW on Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:20 pm

Gorgeous shot Bugeyes! Guess you can really identify with your subject. How many shots did you take to get exposure close with onboard popup?
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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby Bugeyes on Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:11 pm

RDW wrote: How many shots did you take to get exposure close with onboard popup?


Nil, camera was set to manual ~ 250th/sec at various apertures, the E-TTL then controls flash output to expose to your settings... as you can see from the exif data no flash exposure compensation was used. Nothing wrong with 40D's image quality, probably one of the best bang for your buck cameras available today. Here's a few more I didn't think worthy of publication, straight from camera only re-size for web.

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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby trublubiker on Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:53 pm

Great shots. Excellent detail. I feel an attack of LBA coming on.
Gotta get a macro.

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Re: Preening Mantis

Postby stetner on Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:59 am

Nice one Bugeyes! I keep looking for these guys but never seem to find them when I have my macro gear setup....

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