Best picture of a mantis, ever?!?

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Best picture of a mantis, ever?!?

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One of the best photo shots I've seen... incredible!! Looks like CGI...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/showmeeuph ... otostream/
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FIRST!

Seriously, wonderful picture. Thanks for the heads up.

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is it a photo.....?

incredible!
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Nice
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Re: Best picture of a mantis, ever?!?

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What's so good about a photo of a blurry house?

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This isn't a mantis :cry:
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ts-soft wrote:This isn't a mantis :cry:
it's an alien :D
No, it's Hasselhoff!!
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Hoff ALWAYS has to make an appearance here, doesn't he? :lol:
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PB wrote:Hoff ALWAYS has to make an appearance here, doesn't he? :lol:
When somebody started it we all had to follow...
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I didn't mean it was a bad thing; I like how Hoff is our unofficial mascot. :)
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Someone should email The Hoff and let him know how popular he is here, maybe he could post a few comments. :lol: :lol:

Back on subject, that really is a good picture of Ned.
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I love the PureBasic Forum... you never know where a thread will end... :lol: OR, do you? Hoff seems to sneak in here and there... :lol:
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PB wrote:Hoff ALWAYS has to make an appearance here, doesn't he? :lol:
I know i might be a little media-addicted once in a while. But hey, if you had my look wouldn't you do it too?
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Re: Best picture of a mantis, ever?!?

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> One of the best photo shots I've seen

Personally, I think it's a fake. Look at the ground: there's a definite strip
under the insect's body that is sharper in focus than anywhere else. Why?
That's very suspicious if it's meant to be an unretouched photograph. The
camera shouldn't have such differences in focus like that. Fake, I say. :twisted:

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I am also wondering of the shadows. Perhaps i am wrong here, but if you look at the direction of the shadows, you can think of where the sun should be. If you compare the shadows from the front legs with the leftmost leg, they are barely visible.

The house in the background looks like CG.

About the focus, pb, using my mirror reflex with a macro lens / other kind of close-up lens (or if you go further away & zoom i guess) you do get such a sharp focus. It would actually look pretty much like that if you got so close. AFAIK
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