Praying Mantiss-The Night Stalker

Another one from the trip to Southern France last week. As said i have been working on Praying Mantiss in all sorts of settings and ways. This time i was out during the night to look for them and using a torch provided this backlight.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark 3
Shutter speed: 0,6 sec
Aperture: F 10
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 1 1/3
Flash:no (use of torch instead)
Flash exposure compensation: -
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 400
Lens: Sigma 150mm F2.8
Focal length:195mm (incl. crop factor)
AF mode: Manual Focus
On tripod with remote control
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/Homemade mix-Sharpening
Bibble Pro/Adobe Photoshop CS 4

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Lovely image and ideal, but I think a Portrait format would suit this image Jeroen better IMO,love the BG and colours shown

Hi Craig,

I guess you are right about the portrait format but i always struggle with these sort of images..
Will post some more Praying Mantiss images soon..

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Very nice Jeroen, the torchlight worked well, and I look forward to seeing more of the series.
Btw there is only one 's' in mantis

Regards,

Fran

Nice idea Jeroen. Like the blue shine on the neck. Agree about the framing, a vertical would probably be better.

A cracker Jeroen

It doesn't work for me Jeroen. The lighting on the Mantiss has practically made the body disappear and it just looks odd. Nice idea... but not quite.
Robert.