This is a rhinoceros beetle. Remarkably, there are more than 1500 different kinds of rhinoceros beetles in the world. Although it's quite larger for an insect, to fill the frame with this guy still requires a macro lens. Macro photography, virtually be definition, has extremely shallow depth of field. Even when using a small lens aperture like f/32, photographers expect the rear portion of their macro images to be soft. Any distant elements, like a stand of trees in a forest, will be so blurred they'd have no definition at all. In fact, the original background behind this beetle was exactly that -- a complete blur. I replaced it with a shot of the jungle in Brazil to create the type of macro shot we never see (notwithstanding focus stacking). This composite is an amalgam of a focus stacked insect with a replaced background.
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