Camera: Canon EOS 700D

Lens: 55-250mm

Aperture: f/5.6

Shutter Speed: 1/200 sec

ISO: 400

Praying Mantis

becomes Prey

This picture of a bird (looks like

a Babbler to me) with a Praying

Mantis comes to us from Saransh

Fattepuria via email. I like the fact

that Saransh has photographed

his subject from (more or less) the

subject’s eye level and not from his

own eye level. I also like the fact

that he has used a wide aperture to

throw the background out of focus.

While the picture is nice, I feel

that due to the soft lighting along

with the use of wide-open f/5.6

aperture, the image lacks contrast.

In Photoshop, I have slightly

increased the contrast and also

toned down the foreground. A bit

of sharpening was applied along

with some hue/saturation for the

mantis.

Original

Edited
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Smart PhotographyJuly 2017

Rohinton Mehta,

Technical Editor, Smart Photography

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