This is a profile and ventral view of a metallic golden green colored beetle. If you can help identify it please tell me so that I know the next time that I come across one.

It rained like the dickens the day we left the campsite and it was floating in a puddle of water and it also took the ride home in the pill bottle of vodka.

These are stacked images and I used a piece of black velvet placed behind the subject to create the black background. I tried a white background and a colored background however it was difficult to get the metallic colors to show as I saw them.

Thanks in advance to all that view and for your comments, suggestions and critique.

There are those who subscribe to the effective focal length rule, if you put a 100mm lens on a APS-C camera with a 1.5X crop factor that lens effectively becomes a 150mm lens. To me the formula does not actually make a lot of sense because the decrease in the angle of view is simply the effect of the decrease of the real estate of the sensor.

I shoot a Canon 5DSR, a 50mp sensor, If I were the APS-C mode on that camera is about the same as an 18mp APS-C camera or the old Canon 7D. So, should I used different calculations when shooting different modes? I think not, I think that it is true however that as the pixel density becomes greater, smaller pixels, the effects of motion blur becomes more evident so you have to use more care.