Beetles series | liewwk

beetles order of coleoptera and it consist millions of species… it is cute and good to shoot as normally it is quite big in size …

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update 2013 Feb 5

Rhinoceros beetle

update 2013 Jan 2

... Dogbane Beetle [Chrysochus auratus] ...
… Dogbane Beetle [Chrysochus auratus] …
update 2012 Nov 30

… weevils with pollens …

update 2012 Nov 23

… ladybird in love …
… giraffe beetle …
… tiger beetle …
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Beetle series

How I shoot MACRO

one of my favorite MACRO model – Tiger Beetle

I love to capture this beetle but too bad this beetle is skittish/shy .. and not easy to get close so have a closer shot .. so most of the shots I use SIGMA150 instead my MP-E65

1. the green one .. and most difficult to get close

… tiger beetle …

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animation make this beetle look scary

... tiger beetle animation ...

 

 

How I have more MACRO DOF …

As we know anything >1:1 macro, we have very limit DOF … I had it share before … what we DOF have while we shooting macro e.g. at crop body, F16 at 1:1 .. the dof we have is just ~1mm … so how we have more DOF ?

1. angle is important , if we want the main objects “focus”

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limit DOF

at certain angle, we have not possible to have both object focus .. e.g. choose one , shoot small to crop , or using stacking method I use (discuss before HERE)

by using the stacking … we can get both beetle focus as below

 

or discuss http://liewwkphoto.com/blog/?p=922

 

of if we do not want to do much on post process… choose the best angle to have both object focus e.g.

 

more beetle collection click HERE