The Lady

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Tony S

Tony S

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Otherwise known as my aphid killing machine. It's an image I took almost 6 years ago. The shallow dof courtesy of the 100mm macro.

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Wow, nice shot! Quite the color on her shell. Did you enhance the saturation a bit? Looks like metal flake, LOL!
 
Didn't really up the saturation much on it, maybe only +7 on the slider for the reds in the original conversion years ago (I seldom did much then to any of the photos, was always trying for straight from the camera).
But I did desaturate the other colors and tweaked the vibrance and blacks when I opened the old jpeg in ACR to work it tonight. The metal flake look might have come from using the large shiney metal lid to the frying pan as a reflector with natural light.

I'll have to dig deeper for the original unedited file to see what I did.
 
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There is a Beetle up in the woods around Mount Rainier that has a most incredible green "metalflake paint job" iridescent coloring. I don't know what it is, other than a Beetle, and possibly, based on a Google search, a Tiger Beetle.

It looks something like this one, but I don't recall it having the spots. I also thought the green was a bit more apple green/gold, but that could have simply been the sunlight.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_tiger_beetle_1.jpg

I'd like to find one some day when I've got a good macro lens handy.
 
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Really really really nice photo, Tony. I love it! The 100mm macro is a beast!

Everything about this photo sings to me, good sir.

Love it!
 
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