Ant portrait, I.D. Please
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Ant portrait, I.D. Please
Canon 20D, Canon MPE-65, 2.5X life size, 1/250, f8, mirror lockup, remote shutter release, 8 image stack in Helicon, no unsharp mask, help on I.D. please thanks!
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Good capture, and nicely posed. Looks quite like a shot of a living animal, though, apart from the fact that you have been able to take eight single exposures for the stack, the position of the mouthparts can provide a clue that the ant was dead, or am I mistaken?
Yes, Camponotus sp. that would be my assumption too, from that photo. (But then, what do I know what else could be scrambling around in that nice, subtropical Florida climate, huh?! )
From what I think I can see of the thorax I would say it´s a sexual female.
It´s always good to have a snapshot that shows the "waist" when trying to ID ants.
--Betty
Yes, Camponotus sp. that would be my assumption too, from that photo. (But then, what do I know what else could be scrambling around in that nice, subtropical Florida climate, huh?! )
From what I think I can see of the thorax I would say it´s a sexual female.
It´s always good to have a snapshot that shows the "waist" when trying to ID ants.
--Betty
Thanks Betty.
Yes, dead and fresh out of the freezer. I should have taken at least another dozen images so I would have had even greater depth of field! But I'm slowly getting better at this...
Mirror lockup, with 2 second delay on each frame before shutter release with remote shutter release cord-thanks Charlie.
Yes, dead and fresh out of the freezer. I should have taken at least another dozen images so I would have had even greater depth of field! But I'm slowly getting better at this...
Mirror lockup, with 2 second delay on each frame before shutter release with remote shutter release cord-thanks Charlie.