I've heard of people doing that just to absorb the light but that's not how I did it. It's just has to do with aperature size, lighting and distances from the actual subject and background. To knock out backgrounds in a photo editing application would seem long and tedious and with as much photograpy as I do I would never get a chance to leave the computer. When I was in Honduras back in March, I was with a couple of gentlemen from Germany and Belgium that were using a portable glass sqeeze tank to photograph fish that they were catching using nets in the shallow narrow streams. I heard of it but never seen it done until then. Pretty ingenious what people come up with. Another fine maker of violins. It's no wonder they call these mantids violins, they are as eleghant and esquisite looking as the instrument if one were to compare. Stadivarius seemed an appropriate title. Yes, they're also might be a Guarneri Violin in the making, just gotta find the right aged dense wood that had supposedly been exposed to cooler mini ice-aged temperatures. I only pretend to know about violins because both my daughters play, and my youngest son is just starting. I don't really know too much about the history of the Stradivarius but I know a beautiful instrument when I hear one or see one. If I couldv'e named the violin mantid it would've been called the (
Gongylus stradivariusii)
.
Snipet from Wikpedia
The 1697 Molitor[2] Stradivarius, once rumored to have belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte (it did belong to a general in his army, Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor), sold for
$3,600,000 in October 2010 at Tarisio Auctions, a new world record.[3][4] Depending on condition, instruments made during Stradivari's "golden period" from 1700 to 1720 can be worth
several million dollars.
To this day there are few select that are given the opportunity to play it in concert, but you really have to be good,...no, I meant fantastic!
Suwanai plays Paganini Violin Concerto
Violin Solo starts at 4:17
