Ornate katydid

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Lou Jost
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Ornate katydid

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Two of these katydids (genus Moncheca, species closest to M. elegans but color is wrong) came to a collecting light in our Rio Zunac research station in eastern Ecuador. I caught them and kept them alive for two weeks to photograph, and continued photographing them once they had died. The low-m shots are done mostly with the Olympus PEN F and in-camera focus bracketing with the Oly 60mm macro lens. Slightly larger versions are at www.ecomingafoundation.wordpress.com including male genitalia for ID

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Post by Sumguy01 »

:smt038 Very nice set.
Thanks for sharing.

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Post by chuong nguyen »

Very nice macros. Thanks for sharing.

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These are spectacular -- an interesting and intrinsically attractive subject, photographed beautifully, using a very wide variety of styles and techniques. The phrase "tour de force" comes to mind!

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Post by mawyatt »

Lou,

Great shots!! Love the colors you captured with backgrounds and live action!

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Is #2 one where you used your 60mm macro, reversed?
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Post by Beatsy »

Gorgeous set Lou! Love the white background shots in particular - really suits the subject.

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Very nice!
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Post by Lou Jost »

Thank you all very much for your kind comments! I was in the field (back at this same research station) these last two days so could not respond. This was a really inspiring subject for me, great fun to work with.

ChrisR, Photo 2 was a regular stack-by-rail, with my 135mm Vivitar/Komine and a Mitutoyo objective (either the 7.5x or 10x, I don't remember now). I used cross-polarized light, but purposely didn't make it perfectly crossed, so the highlights would be white instead of purple (since my polarizers aren't 100% effective at the shortest wavelengths.). Edit--This is still the PEN-F MFT camera.
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Beautiful shots.

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Impressive is an understatement.

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Thanks, razashaik and tevans9129!

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Special images. A pleasure to view these. :D
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