Ant portrait, I.D. Please

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Tom Stack
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Ant portrait, I.D. Please

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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! Image

Tom Stack
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Post by Tom Stack »

Looks like I captured a Carpenter Ant, Camponotus sp.

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Post by Planapo »

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?! :wink:)
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

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Post by Tom Stack »

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.

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Post by beetleman »

You had me fooled on the ant being alive :shock:
Take Nothing but Pictures--Leave Nothing but Footprints.
Doug Breda

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Post by Tom Stack »

Doug,

Good feedback, "looking alive" pose was the idea, thanks!

Tom

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Post by Tom Stack »

Doug,

By the way, I think it was you who outbid me on the Canon MPE-65 lens on ebay a few weeks ago!! If so, how are you doing with this lens??

Best,

Tom

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