Shades of Green

[Arun Acharjee]

Their appearances make me applaud. Their movement, skill of camouflage, those spines, technique of hunting everything is very interesting. It was my last subject of the day because I often lost in them while framing their beauty.

ID: Indian Flower Mantis(?) Juvenile(√)

EXIF Info:

Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Nikon 105mm Macro VR
ISO: 500
Shutter Speed: 1/160
Aperture: f/16

Handheld, Edited, Cropped, No flash
Thank you.😊

[Mrudul Godbole]

Typical mantis pose. It is so nicely camouflaged in the leaves. How much crop is this? Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice to see this one. It is difficult to notice them. The holes in the leaves tell a story. Have you changed the background? The minimum focusing distance of your lens is around 1 feet. Fortunately this is a bigger subject than some of the spiders. Else the crop would have been even bigger. I am curious to see the uncropped version so as that we can think of alternate framing. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Arun Acharjee]

This one is the full frame image with same editing. The previous image has no background change, clone, patch, no use of any brush. I generally edit in RAW(.NEF for Nikon) mode in photoshop. In most cases exposure, highlight, shadow, white, black, vibrance and sharpness are the common fields those I deal with. The unicolored(almost) green background is due to a paddy field behind.
Thank you:001_smile: