Alien Face - Extreme macro on an adult Large Brown Mantid
alt1 dust cloned out.

My younger brother found this amazing praying mantis - measured at least 11cm no including the reach it could get out of it's front legs (I guess it's not called a Large Brown mantid for nothing!). Shot in studio the background was not made in PS but a result of the background I chose for dramatic effect. Yes a focus bracket would have been nice, but this thing was live and moving!

  • Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 11:41, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Support. Guesome but amazing, especially the eye. Two questions though, is the white mark in the eye a reflection from a flash/lighting? Second, is the v-shaped hair between the attenae part of the animal or something on the lens? Pstuart84 Talk 13:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
    • I'm almost certain that it is a hair - odd isn't it? --Fir0002 22:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
      • Sorry Fir, are you saying it's the animal's hair or that it was a human hair (dust) on the lens? Pstuart84 Talk 23:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
        • I think Fir was playing with it and that the hair is his. Or maybe the Mantid lives in fir's hair. :-D --Arad 23:47, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
          • Umm, no that is just sick. The hair is almost certainly from the mantid since it is evident in all other photos of the mantid I took, and that if it were on the lens it would appear as a very OOF line --Fir0002 01:40, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
            • That was a joke. No offence. lol. If you find playing with this insects sick, then how do take all these good close up pics from them? I can't stand many of them, but you take studio picture of them. Good job on that. --Arad 01:46, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
              • The "V" is almost certainly a piece of non-mantid dust. Insect bristles grow from bilaterally symmetrical base points, and this one has no counterpart on the right side.Debivort 07:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
  • support alt 1 I'm pretty sure the V-thing is a hair. So here is an edit with it cloned out. Fir - would you please please resume indicating what articles are being illustrated by the photos? Also, how did you get that nice dark gradient background? Debivort 19:12, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
I used a white piece of paper flat on the surface, and got my sister to hold up a black paper a little above the surface of the white paper. Since this is way OOF due to the extreme macro, it makes a pleasing gradient. --Fir0002 22:59, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Ah, nice trick. Debivort 07:44, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Large brown mantid close up nohair.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 09:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)