Accidental Cheating - _TNY_9425S3
After managing to capture a short focus stack of three photos of this harp ground beetle known as Amara aulica (I've seen it mentioned as princely harp ground beetle) I was pretty stoked and proceeded to process the RAW files into a finished stack.
But then ,looking closer at the way the eyes look and the thin white strands on the legs, I became suspicious and began wondering if I had shot a dead beetle.
And returning to the same place the next morning, I found it there on the same leaf, quite clearly dead.
Regardless of this, I am still quite pleased with how the photo turned out, even if there was zero risk of it running away.
Accidental Cheating - _TNY_9425S3
After managing to capture a short focus stack of three photos of this harp ground beetle known as Amara aulica (I've seen it mentioned as princely harp ground beetle) I was pretty stoked and proceeded to process the RAW files into a finished stack.
But then ,looking closer at the way the eyes look and the thin white strands on the legs, I became suspicious and began wondering if I had shot a dead beetle.
And returning to the same place the next morning, I found it there on the same leaf, quite clearly dead.
Regardless of this, I am still quite pleased with how the photo turned out, even if there was zero risk of it running away.