Thanks, Preston - for the original (posted in Macro yesterday) I quickly slipped a green posterboard behind her (turns out it is a female) in the garden and fired off a few shots before she left.
Some didn't like the green BG, so I tried this high-key one, as I often do with flowers.
Not sure which I prefer.
Also, for those interested, a program like Topaz Re-Mask will quickly and cleanly completely drop out any BG so you can put in what you want.
Sandy r
Posted by Steve Sieren on September 27, 2010 at 2:36 PM
Very artistic Sandy, how in the world do you know it's a female?
John, Hard to see it in this small image - take a look at the original "Large version" that was posted in the macro forum.
Remember, this whole insect is only an inch long, total, and mouth parts even tinier. Prey is there! .
Sandy
Posted by Paul Duval on September 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Ok very creative Sandy, and I'll give her secret away you can tell it's a female by the fishook like ovipositor at the back end of the Katydid it's a little obscured by the legs. This is used to lay her egs under the bark of trees and inside twigs or branches. By the by my wife's chameleons think they are yummy. Don't want to burst the bubble, but if katydids do eat anything before the procreate and die it would be vegetable matter. They are kind of like big green cicadas.
Sorry, but I watched her eat the little bug by her left front foot before she jumped away..
Guess she didn't read the "katydid instructions".
Sandy r
Posted by Robert Cubit on September 28, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Quite right, Sandy---many Katydids are, in fact, omnivores:
http://wapedia.mobi/simple/Orthoptera
“Katydids are mostly herbivores (plant eaters), though they will eat their own mate, too, if they are hungry enough. They also enjoy eating aphids and other small, slow-moving creatures.”
Bob
Posted by Harley Goldman on September 28, 2010 at 5:07 PM
Very cool image, Sandy!! The high key works really well. I really like this.
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Subject dist: 0.56m
1/2.5 sec, f/22
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
Exp comp: +1
ISO: 200
White balance: Auto
Large version posted in the Macro forum
I'm curious about the background. Did you place something there to give this effect? I think it works really well.
Nice job!
--P
Some didn't like the green BG, so I tried this high-key one, as I often do with flowers.
Not sure which I prefer.
Also, for those interested, a program like Topaz Re-Mask will quickly and cleanly completely drop out any BG so you can put in what you want.
Sandy r
(Wayne Jones knows macro critters, and his reply to my post in the Macro forum tells me it is female, and I then looked it up)
As opposed to this squirrel that is definitely a male! :
http://www.naturephotographers.net/imagecritique/bbs.cgi?a=vm&mr=60328&CGISESSID=72ea87ed2d47040a0fe769aa598b8bc1&u=20902
Sandy
Remember, this whole insect is only an inch long, total, and mouth parts even tinier. Prey is there! .
Sandy
Paul
Guess she didn't read the "katydid instructions".
Sandy r
http://wapedia.mobi/simple/Orthoptera
“Katydids are mostly herbivores (plant eaters), though they will eat their own mate, too, if they are hungry enough. They also enjoy eating aphids and other small, slow-moving creatures.”
Bob