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Published: 2003-10-23 22:26:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 4908; Favourites: 163; Downloads: 759
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i've had this idea since i got this beetle...i wanted to use a soft fill flash from the right, but my flash system (ahaha) bitched around once again...
so this is just natural light with a reflector, and stronger shadows than intended...
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One of my ALL TIME favorite images on DA, and the internet. This TOTALLY ROCKS.
I love it love it love it.
Well done
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lebt der kerl auf diesem bild noch? ich meine ist der da schon tot?
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der weiΓe oder der schwarze?
war schon tot
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wicked photo, how did you know you could do this with a dead beetle (or presumably other insects)?
do you collect insects or was this just a special case?
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i just noticed that from their shape the joints should hold together just by the chitin structure, so i tried to move them and i could
i don't collect bugs as such, i just use what i find dead somewhere or get given by friends (like in this case)
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great observation. thanks for the resopnse
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Awww... what a great idea! It reminds me more of wrestling than of chess though :-D.
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"My beetle can beat you at chess!"
"Hey! Tell it to stop cheating!"
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Hi!
I have put this picture into my journal [link] 
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This is fantastic....I laughed my butt off when I saw it. It almost makes me want to get a beetle...but...no. no. I hate bugs.
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not a cheater......lets just calL him ONE OF THE HIDDEN FORCES OF CHESS
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What a great shot! Did you try to set this one up, or just kinda let the beetle loose on the chessboard and hope for good results? He's a gorgeous color, it really grabs attention.
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i set it up, the bug is dead
when you are really careful, you can break the dried up muscle(?) inside and then move most of the joints
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Neat. It still looks very lifelike, I couldn't tell at all.
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This is superb.
I love those beetles. They make me smile.
The blue colour of the shell looks very nice against the wood of the board.
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have you ever seen them flying?
they keep their bodies vertical, with the antlers in the air
they have become very rare here though ...
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they have become very rare here though ...
Yep, leider...
Und wenn die Dinger fliegen, is das wirklich ziemlich beeindruckend.
Hab ΓΌbrigens auch so einen HirschkΓ€fer in meiner Gallery, aber verglichen mit deinen Bildern halt nur ein Snapshot.
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Wow. This is such an amazing macro shot. I love the blue color reflected by the beetle's shell.
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Is it a rhinocerous beetle? I love the metallic blue and I also am very fond of the idea, but I think maybe it would have been better to capture it from a lower angle.. that would possibly knock out some of the shadows there and make the bug a little clearer. Nevertheless he is a lovely little guy/girl... Can you tell?
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nothing is perfect
but thanks all the same
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ya u are probably right .... well perhaps not perfect but real nice at any rate
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That has such good focus... u can even make out the grain on the wood... awesome work
That bug is so well captured... good work!
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Aaaa! This is incredible! I love the idea, and the technicalities of how this shot looks also
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other people wanted me to crop the background pieces out
they were intended to be an anonymous crowd, watching from a save distance... but maybe they would have been anonymous enough just from the dof, but then i would have needed a background behind the pieces and i'm uhh, not good with backgrounds...
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Mmm, that's interesting. Maybe the other peices could be more like spectators, in which case if there was more of them it might be more obvious
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i got it from a friend, her parents found it dead...
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Is that really a beetle? It's a pretty cool idea. Though, I'd be interested in seeing it from different angels. Or maybe crop out those bottom parts of the other pieces. The are kind of distracting from the rest of the composition. We can already assume that there are other chess pieces on the board, we don't need to neccesarily see any of them, and if we are to, I'd rather see the whole piece than just the bottom.
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it's really a real beetle, but a dead one...
when they dry up inside, all the chitin joints are still functionable, so you can set them up in any pose, if you do it carefully
mhmm... interesting point about the background pieces... i wanted to create a sort of anonymous crowd, watching the scene from a distance, just the way a crowd does, when an accident or a crime happens... i don't know if not showing their heads makes chess figures more anonymous 
maybe the lens blur wasn't enough to neutralize them, cause you're not the first to comment on that...
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I admire your knowledge of dead beetles.
I just like to give little crits that leave you will something to mull over.
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as you can see in my gallery, i have knowledge of dead things in general
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i should add that i don't hunt or kill animals...
i just skeletize roadkill and naturally caused casualties...
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I've heard of people doing that.
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