Ground beetle or Dinodes cruralis

This is Native to Ukraine
1.5X, 100mm lens, 1/60, f5.6, 320 ISO, 21steps, 271micrometer

comments (6)

William Bodine

Lion

Obtained from a small beetle collection Posted 3 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Awesome, William! The species seems very obscure, rarely reported. Posted 3 years ago
2. 1. William Bodine
    
    Lion
    
    Thanks Ferdy. The iridescent blue and green colors are absolutely beautiful. Posted 3 years ago

Christine Young

Lion

Fantastic! How did you get the background so brilliantly white? Is there backlighting? Posted 3 years ago
1. William Bodine
  
  Lion
  
  I used a homemade lightbox surrounded by six LED lights on four sides of the box. The backdrop was a white card. In post using a free editing program called GIMP, I did dust removal on the insect with the healing tool and then changed the background to pure white (255 means that the red, green, and blue values are each at their maximum intensity, and this is generally the defined white point of the color scale system) using the fill option. Yikes, I sound like a geek! Posted 3 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Awesome! Geeks are the best <3. Posted 3 years ago