Travis - without giving away all your secrets can you tell me what editing you did to those photos besides the cropping? Flat out amazing pics - if you are ever near Austin feel free to take pics of my lyretail hawk he's very photogenic
Levels, brightness/contrast and selective unsharp mask on the subject only- USM on the background means lots of icky noise at 100%, and these are intended to be printed for a matted 16x20.
I'll be in austin this weekend, may try to make it by. PM me with your phone #.
Travis - mantis has changed from that nice cherry red to a lime green after molt other than that doing fine - also it is a she since I saw it carrying eggs around about 3 months ago.
ISO400 for both, probably all of them. They were shot with the Canon 28-135IS lens, the gorg shot was 1/15@f/8 and the cap vertical 1/10@f/6.7, neither using a tripod. Those IS (image-stabilized) lenses are a thing of beauty for low-light aquarium photography.