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I saw and photographed one earlier this year when I found it on some lavender in our garden. Yesterday I found another one on the same plant. This time it was on the stems of yet-to-open inflorescences. These were moving around a great deal with the continuously-gusting wind, making macro photography very difficult. (This was probably why the beetle remained mostly motionless on the stalk).

In the previous session (link below) I used twin flash throughout. This time, I wanted to colours as shown in daylight. Because of the motion of the beetle on the swaying stem, purely daylight exposure was out of the question so I used a mix of flash and daylight in Aperture Priority. Only the first image posted here was by flash-dominated exposure, the others with mixed lighting. Most of the latter were rejects due to motion blur. Some exposures were at f11, others at f16.
If you want to see more flash images, with the beetle’s head extended, see:

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1430942/0

Olympus EM-1, Kiron 105mm twin TTL RC off-camera flash.

Harold




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© Harold Gough 2016




Jun 16, 2016 at 12:28 AM
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Good captures Harold
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Jun 16, 2016 at 12:35 AM
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Fascinating subject.

The wide variety of extreme shadows and highlights are tough to nail uniformly.



Jun 17, 2016 at 12:27 AM
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John Koerner wrote:
Fascinating subject.

The wide variety of extreme shadows and highlights are tough to nail uniformly.


Yes, I initially had one flash pointed straight up at the face and was still not happy with the results. I used several combination of flash angles and relative distances. Ideally, I would have used a third flash.

Harold



Jun 17, 2016 at 01:00 AM





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