Here's my Male flying ant portrait, I presume this is Lasius niger but as usual not 100% sure!
Square crop for composition. Stack of around 60 images, aligned in CZP, stacked in Tufuse.
Shot with E330, MF1, OM Auto bellows at around 1/2 extension, Nikon 10x microscope objective, STF22 twinflash.
Point of interest, this ant spent nearly three days in the freezer, I got it out mounted it, got everything lined up, was working on final shot settings, position tweaks and exposure when I noticed the palps moving around! So back in the freezer for another day, that seemed to do the job...
Another male Lasius ant portrait
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