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I occasionally find adult carabid (ground) beetles under stones, logs or bark. Most are nocturnal and they flee when I expose them to daylight. This one was an exception. It not only stayed still for one session, which I then had to repeat because of an incorrect camera setting, but it stayed still a second time, having moved to a new position when the chunk of bark was in the position in which I originally found it.

Lighting a very shiny beetle is always problematic, whether by daylight or flash. A shiny black beetle seems even more difficult. I tried changing the angles for which my twin flashes were aimed, with limited improvement.

This beetle was around 20mm long. It is one of the genus known as Pterostichus or Feronia.

EM-1, 21mm extension, reversed Schneider HM 40mm at f16,twin TTL RC flash, one fre-standing, hand-held.

The images have been cropped slightly. The blur in the last one is the left antenna.

Harold



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Apr 05, 2015 at 01:51 AM
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Nicely done Harold ~ Ron


Apr 05, 2015 at 07:27 AM
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I never realised they had such nasty looking jaws. Another lesson in the world of bugs! Thanks!
Don



Apr 05, 2015 at 09:36 AM
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This is an excellent set Harold. I'm not shore if you need the flash for light or just for accent. You might try using a diffuser or a bounce card. I've had great results for butterflies which are admittedly quite a bit larger.

Morris



Apr 05, 2015 at 11:59 AM
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morris wrote:
This is an excellent set Harold. I'm not shore if you need the flash for light or just for accent. You might try using a diffuser or a bounce card. I've had great results for butterflies which are admittedly quite a bit larger.

Morris


Thanks, Morris. There is a diffuser, or rather, two (an inner and outer), on the main flash. Aiming the main flash horizontally, rather than down at 45 degrees may have helped but that was not practical at the time.

Thanks, also, Don & Ron.

Harold



Apr 05, 2015 at 12:10 PM





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