Couple of Ant Shots

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:19 am

The first one had a nice Side of Beetle Beef and the other one was taking a break from the day to day toil of being an ant. First one is a 30% crop, second one is full frame and converted to grayscale which seemed to clean up the photo and give it more contrast. There was not much color in the original, being the deck is gray and the ant is black

It is actually not a good sign to see these ants around my deck because I believe they are carpenter ants and they usually do not fix things around your house

Maybe 10mm in size.

1/25s
F/8
ISO100

1/40s
F/8
ISO100

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:25 am

That first photo makes me glad there are such places as FAT'S and Ruby Tuesdays.

Yuck!

That second inmage is a real good'n there Doug and in b & w looks really well.

Planapo · Post by **Planapo** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:24 am

... carpenter ants and they usually do not fix things around your house

Doug, nice shots and an all-too-true comment. LOL

Yeah, #2 clearly shows a Camponotus sp.

(But what are "FATs and Ruby Tuesdays"? Something like diners?:-k

Bye for now,
Betty.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:41 am

Thanks Ken & Betty

. "Ruby Tuesdays" is well known chain of Restaurants in the USA. "FATS" is probably the same thing. I am not familiar with Them. take care.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:04 am

FAT'S is really good for their Bar B Que Ribs and combo platter meals but I really like the Asian Rib dinner at Ruby Tuesdays better and their giant hamburgers too! $\:D/$ I can eat a whole rack of ribs plus salad and baked potato, not to mention the Thai-phoon shrimp cocktail at Ruby Tuesdays.

Average cost about the price of some new photo software when I get done eating

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:23 am

Any ant shot is a good shot!

You might get things a bit sharper if you coudl cut your exposure time down from the 1/25th second of the first one. If your camera doesn't move in that time, the ant will!