I took this picture ofa praying mantis last year, in September, at 20.45 PM.
One hour earlier, I was taking some nice proxy pictures of this mantis. That’s all what I had in mind. Then, I saw the full moon rising, without any clouds in the sky. I took my camera with the 80-400 mounted and I went to the same place.Trying to find the praying mantis took me about ten minutes. I attempted to take others pictures quickly, from different sides of this umbelliferous plant. I made sure the lens was at the same level that the mantis. All was taken in the light of the moon. I had no tripod with me and I used the lens at 400mm, so it was a little bit difficult to focus and to keep the image sharp. I got only one picture ; 2000 iso, 1/60 5,6 at 400 mm
Post processing was done in Lightroom. I wanted to make the colors look the way I saw them, blue and gold. I also needed to reduce the digital noise. At the end I have decided to crop the image.
