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I love it's colors.
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A superb abstract composition. I can't quite make out the subject. Is it a weevil?

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Harold Gough wrote:A superb abstract composition. I can't quite make out the subject. Is it a weevil?

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No Harold,actually it is a beetle but I dont know the scientific name of it.
The whole thing is 1-1/2" long.

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Post by beetleman »

Excellent photo Gérard. The colors are fantastic. The antenna looks like a scarab type beetle but the face is very strange. Would need to see more. Metallic surfaces are very hard to capture.
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Excellent indeed!
You don't have a shot of the whole beetle by any chance? Then it would probably be easy to identify it.

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rovebeetle wrote:Excellent indeed!
You don't have a shot of the whole beetle by any chance? Then it would probably be easy to identify it.

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Here is the whole beetle.
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Post by rovebeetle »

I already thought it's a stag beetle, from the shape of the antenna. This is a female of the common Lucanus cervus.
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A lesson for me, in that I would never have considered such a species for its potential to produce such colour and texture in an image.

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Harold Gough wrote:A lesson for me, in that I would never have considered such a species for its potential to produce such colour and texture in an image.

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Definitely right. Up close, things can look deceivingly different.

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Post by Gérard-64 »

Actually this insecte is rather black than bluish,I think the change in color is due to the illumination..(2 desk lamps+1 small neon lamp).

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I would have expected that illumination to give yellow to red casts, not blue.

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Harold Gough wrote:I would have expected that illumination to give yellow to red casts, not blue.

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I cannot say more,I am not an expert in illumination settings,the only thing I can tell you is that the withe balance of the camera was set on "incandescent".

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Post by Gérard-64 »

Harold,this is the same beetle,this time taken with the built-in flash of the Nikon D80 camera +a altuglass difuser.The color is still not correct(as I told you,this beetle is really pure black!)
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Post by Harold Gough »

Gérard,

The mystery deepens.

The blue colour in the first picture is much like that of a filter to correct tungsten light to daylight. As you had the tungsten setting on your camera, any white light would have become blue.

The flash image, on the other hand, shows some of the warm colours I would expect from uncorrected, or partially corrected , tungsten lighting. (This image keeps disappearing).

I note that the colour of the background follows the shift in colour of the beetles. If it is the same background in each case that provides further information about colour balance.

It remains that you initial image is very striking in composition, texture and colour.

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Both images are amazing - in texture and colour. So from the point of view of 'Art' rather than 'Science' - they are fantastic.

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