Necklace Ground Beetle Carabus monilis

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited September 12, 2015 in Holy Macro
I don't normally feature dead insects but this is a particularly attractive one. It is not supposed to be around after July but I found it on the ground in the second week of September.

Lighting can be tricky for metallic-looking subjects. I noted that it looked best in diffused daylight from overhead. I tried to approximate to this by bouncing my flash off a vertical white board on my left.

The background was some pale cloth.

This is one of the larger species, almost an inch (25mm) long.

Harold

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  • ThelensspotThelensspot Registered Users Posts: 2,041 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2015
    Very informative. I can easily appreciate the metallic glean in your shot as well.
    "Photography is partly art and partly science. Really good photography adds discipline, sacrifice and a never ending pursuit of photographic excellence"...ziggy53

  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited September 12, 2015
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Very informative. I can easily appreciate the metallic glean in your shot as well.

    Thanks.

    Harold
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