Nikon D300 w/Nikkor 105mm micro lens + Kenko 36mm extension tube, tripod mounted.
ISO 400; f/22, 1/60 sec.
The beetle was placed on a translucent white acrylic sheet and illuminated from above by twin wireless SB-R200 speedlights (with extreme close up diffusers attached) and by another from below the sheet.
Minor standard CS6 adjustments were made.
Depth of field was not all that I would like, and in the future I'll back off more to improve that. But I wanted to test the extreme close up diffusers, which require a short distance between lens and subject.
I don't know which beetle this is, although it may be in the stag beetle family because if its large mandibles.
All comments are welcome and appreciated.
Norm







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