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I think Ridley Scott studied ants before he started making the movie, Aliens !

Happy Holiday season to everyone here and elsewhere.

Best wishes.

Excellent macro work. I like the composition and the nice perspective effect. May I wish you a very happy Christmas and a Wonderful New Year!

Nice image here my freind, i like the details on the face of the ant, and the colors of the bg are soooo good too.

What really makes this image to me is the Horror-movie effect on the ant's face, welldone cyrus, regards, RK!

My long time, neglected friend!. Good to see here again and I do wish you all the happiness for the season..

 

Rafik, thank you. It does have a combative pose. Thanks for the comment.

 

Best regards.

Excellent macro shot. Wish you a happy merry christmas and a prosperous and bright new year ahead. Regards...

Thank you my friend, wish you the same and I did have you in mind!

 

Best wishes.

I like it's depth of field

Excellent macro,great DOF. Wishing you a MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEARS .

 

~Best~ Regards~

Great macro, great composition. I wish there was more sharpness on the teeth. though amazing.

Outstanding as usual, Cyrus. Excellent in all aspects. Best regards.

for the appreciatiation of this Macro. I liked this for the composition and DOF as well, if I may say so!!

 

Have you all a wonderful New Year.

 

Best regards.

You may say so!! Composition, DOF, colors, sharpness........ brrrrrrrr scary!!

 

When I was a kid I watched a movie about giant jungle ants. They ran over everything and ate everything in their path. I had nightmares for days about it afterwards.

 

You have mail re: the tilt on my Pantheon. Just what you need. But days from now will be soon enough for an answer. Hope you get out and have a wild and wonderful New Year celebration.

Original and great real close macro shot.

Very aesthic in colours and composition.

 

(What do you think about trying different focus in a multiexposure series?

Something like a "DRI" but "GDI: Great DOF increase" using focalplane instead of shutter speed. Purpose is to make the entire head clear and crisp. Do you think it is possible?)

 

Regards J O

Very interesting and intriguing comment, as always.

My experience is that DOF increase would work if your are not magnifying much and it would be increasingly difficult at magnifications like 3:1 or above where DOF is practically in the range of a few MM, even at the diffraction limit of your tools.

 

This is so because when you focus let's say, on the eyes of the ant you will get one magnification and when you try to focus on the mouth area, then you get totally a different magnification and the pieces would NOT super impose. Also, consider the movement of the subject and your own camera movement as you try to change your focus are, specially if your subject is only a few MM and any small movement of 1mm will totally off balance your composition. You will end up with two images that are not at the same level of magnification and also very possibly a different framing.

 

With a stationary subject this would be easier as you can change the image size and some other tricks and make it work. Also, quite possibly, you get a different metering if you have different elements of the subject and the background in your framing. Having said all that, I have been able to manage a few shots here and there and I'll either post them here or email them to you.

 

For stuff like landscape it would certainly work out specially if you have different exposures along with preferential focusing and do a DRI or manually blend. I have tried this and if you haven't you may try it and share the results.

 

Kind regards.

Yes Cyrus, 3:1 spells RESPECT.

Thoose who tries this magnification knows what you're talkin about here.

Many thanks for your explanation.

I hope we will give idea a fair try in some shots. (If you move the camera and not only the lens, magnification is the same at the focuspoint)

 

What do you think of gear like a slider:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=723&A=details&Q=&sku=193311&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation

 

Sincerely J O

It's always a pleasure to visit your gallery every time you post new photos. Wonderful captured the insect, I don't know exactly what species is it, I guess it's a ant. Excellent dof and colors, bravos! Regards!

You are right about that but I do not work with Bellow or a slider. As you well know, it's impractical chasing a live insect but it's great for srationary subject. The slider you have mentiond works fine and I have been thinking about a bellow system for stationary subect as well but I don't do much of that.

 

Thank you for the intriquing and interesting subjects you bring up.

 

Best regards.

It's always great to get a visit form you abd thank you for the kind words my friend.

 

Best wishes.

Thank you my friend for the compliment, it's always a pleasure to have a visit form you.

 

Cheers.