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Woodland Ground Beetle - Coming Thru!
Woodland Ground Beetle - Coming Thru!
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Challenge: A Bug's Life: Insects, Bugs, Beetle (Basic Editing)
Collection: 2009
Camera: Sony DSLR-A700
Lens: Konica Minolta AF 100mm f/2.8 Macro
Date: Dec 5, 2009
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 1600
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Dec 6, 2009

 Genus - Pterostichus

Brought this guy indoors (it was snowing outside!), with some leaves, dirt, and wood bark, and took his photo. Quite a lively fellow after he warmed up...TOO lively. ISO 1600 at F2.8 was still nearly not fast enough to catch a decent shot. I know, I know...could have put him in the freezer...that just seems mean. Had to focus in anticipation and track him some with the camera. I suppose flash would've helped. One of these days I'll have to figure out the art of flash photography. :-)

Oh, BTW - If you haven't figured out by now, I didn't shoot this at the last minute (I was kidding in the forum thread). :-P

Post-Processing

Silkypix
- convert RAW to TIFF

PSP X2
- levels (0,110,221)
- SP Fix (28,-10,20,3,87,2,28)
- Neat Image
- resize
- sharpen
- resize
- USM (.35,100,10) +luminance
- S&P (1,1)
- save as JPG

Statistics
Place: 37 out of 49
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Views during voting: 365
Votes: 244
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 12/14/2009 12:39:07 PM
the focus seems a little too far back. I'd love to see the full head in focus.
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Canon EOS-40D
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon
 12/13/2009 06:01:06 PM
Good take. May have cropped a little tighter for impact but nicely shot all the same. (Not voting)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus E-510
Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital
 12/12/2009 07:35:46 PM
I like the DOF and the title.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8
 12/10/2009 11:58:35 AM
Looks like he has a drill bit coming out of his face!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D800
Sigma 120-300mm f/2.8 EX APO IF HSM for Nikon
 12/10/2009 09:48:36 AM
Looks like a tank! Get that lens out the way! Well shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 12/09/2009 10:44:36 AM
this is quite good....and like mine has "soft focus spots" in different areas..translation...not quite as super sharp as it could be...I know that with mine it was really hard to get the buggers to sit still long enough to focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Fujifilm x100
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 12/09/2009 09:47:31 AM
Excellent POV and I very much like the shallow depth of field. I'm right there with the critter. 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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