Amazon Ant -new picture added
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Amazon Ant -new picture added
I need some time to read the recent posts, there is so much activity here.
I just finished processing this stack. I used my old setup 100mm macro lens with reversed lens. This is an amazon ant (Polyergus rufescens).
A a slaver ant. It raids other ants nests typically servifomica species and steals their pupas. The freshly hatched serviformica ants then work in the amazon ant nest as in their own. As you can see the amazon ant mandible is specialized in killing other ants and carrying their pupas, all other work remain to the slaves.
I used special minute pins in mounting and aligning the ant. Thank you Betty for the idea.
Canon EOS 40D, aligned with CZP, stacked with TuFuse from 72 picture
I just finished processing this stack. I used my old setup 100mm macro lens with reversed lens. This is an amazon ant (Polyergus rufescens).
A a slaver ant. It raids other ants nests typically servifomica species and steals their pupas. The freshly hatched serviformica ants then work in the amazon ant nest as in their own. As you can see the amazon ant mandible is specialized in killing other ants and carrying their pupas, all other work remain to the slaves.
I used special minute pins in mounting and aligning the ant. Thank you Betty for the idea.
Canon EOS 40D, aligned with CZP, stacked with TuFuse from 72 picture
Last edited by acerola on Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:55 am, edited 1 time in total.
Péter
That's a lovely portrait. I quite like the way the head is in total focus and you can see the rest of him in the background.
Only thing I'm not sure of is the background colour!! Don't get me wrong, I love blue/turquoise but for some reason I don't think it suits the ant! Of course that is only a subjective opinion!
Only thing I'm not sure of is the background colour!! Don't get me wrong, I love blue/turquoise but for some reason I don't think it suits the ant! Of course that is only a subjective opinion!
Oh yes, I think that's better! Keep all those in camera settings off or minimum!!
Edited to add:
Did you change the diffusion or lighting in this new image? as it looks better in that respect as well, or maybe the picture settings in the first one caused the hot spot on the top right of the head
Edited to add:
Did you change the diffusion or lighting in this new image? as it looks better in that respect as well, or maybe the picture settings in the first one caused the hot spot on the top right of the head
Last edited by lauriek on Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:52 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Wow, further great shots, Péter!
And again another famous ant species.
I´m on the look-out for P. rufescens for quite some time now, but haven´t managed to find them yet. They are rare up here but I have a record from the literature that names a location near my place where they were seen on raids in the 1950ies and I´ve visited this place a couple of times, but without success so far, maybe they are extinct there nowadays .
I guess they can be encountered more frequently down there at your place. Have you already seen ´em on a raid?
--Betty
And again another famous ant species.
I´m on the look-out for P. rufescens for quite some time now, but haven´t managed to find them yet. They are rare up here but I have a record from the literature that names a location near my place where they were seen on raids in the 1950ies and I´ve visited this place a couple of times, but without success so far, maybe they are extinct there nowadays .
I guess they can be encountered more frequently down there at your place. Have you already seen ´em on a raid?
--Betty