Ant & Prey (Canon 5D Markiii stack)

snic320 · Post by **snic320** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:22 am

Hello everybody!

Here I share with you my latest stack with my new Canon 5D Mark iii + mpe65 + my usual light setup

Ant and Prey (5D Mark iii Stack) por Nicolas Reusens Extreme Macro´s, en Flickr

You can watch it full res here --> http://www.nicolasreusens.com

Canon 60D shot next

Ant & prey 2 por Nicolas Reusens Extreme Macro´s, en Flickr

Hope you find it interesting,

Regards,

Nicolas

Keifer · Post by **Keifer** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 1:20 pm

They are both superb images. How did you get the bug into the jaws of the ant?

snic320 · Post by **snic320** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:32 pm

I show you....with a neel !

Closeup -in detail- por Nicolas Reusens Extreme Macro´s, en Flickr

took me 20 minutes to put the cicada into the jaws

almost got crazy hehehe

Rylee Isitt · Post by **Rylee Isitt** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:33 pm

Whoa.

Now... was this ant alive at the time? If so, how have you managed to do a stack - with two camera bodies no less - with a moving subject?

I've got plenty of dead insects in my collection, and they all look old, dusty, and obviously dead when examined closely. If you've used a dead specimen here, kudos for making it look alive!

oxkarthemighty · Post by **oxkarthemighty** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:15 am

HA! This is awesome. I had never thought of this. Pretty cool idea, I have tried to adjust jaws with a needle before and that can be a pain in the rump by itself. Very cool shots.

How many shots? I am assuming that it was a 5x, and you were shooting wide open?

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Tue May 01, 2012 3:58 am

Stunning images. Even so, I would suggest cropping off about 20% from the right side of the first one.

Harold

snic320 · Post by **snic320** » Tue May 01, 2012 7:58 am

Harold Gough wrote:Stunning images. Even so, I would suggest cropping off about 20% from the right side of the first one.

Harold

Right, got 3 different versions and may be the cut version is more powerful...

here:

paflickas-cortada por Nicolas Reusens Extreme Macro´s, en Flickr

oxkarthemighty wrote:HA! This is awesome. I had never thought of this. Pretty cool idea, I have tried to adjust jaws with a needle before and that can be a pain in the rump by itself. Very cool shots.

How many shots? I am assuming that it was a 5x, and you were shooting wide open?

68 shots, around 3x/3.5x at F4...it was painfully overwhelming!

Rylee Isitt wrote:Whoa.

Now... was this ant alive at the time? If so, how have you managed to do a stack - with two camera bodies no less - with a moving subject?

I've got plenty of dead insects in my collection, and they all look old, dusty, and obviously dead when examined closely. If you've used a dead specimen here, kudos for making it look alive!

Yes sir...dead specimens!...always fighting to get a realistic touch on my stacks

Thanx for your kind coments

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Tue May 01, 2012 11:54 am

Fantastic as usual!

oxkarthemighty · Post by **oxkarthemighty** » Tue May 01, 2012 7:16 pm

snic320 wrote: 68 shots, around 3x/3.5x at F4...it was painfully overwhelming!

Nuts! I would imagine!

Yousef Alhabshi · Post by **Yousef Alhabshi** » Wed May 02, 2012 4:24 am

Looks great as your usual works Nicolas..
As for the prey, it looks to me like a leafhopper more than a cicada

snic320 · Post by **snic320** » Wed May 02, 2012 6:23 am

Yeap! you are right on that, at the time i was doing another stack of a cicada and i did mess things up

Here is the best Stack of the serie to my liking

http://www.nicolasreusens.com/MicroMacr ... &lb=1&s=X2

crisarg · Post by **crisarg** » Wed May 02, 2012 9:26 am

Superb images, especially the first one!

Well worth the effort!

conkar · Post by **conkar** » Sat May 19, 2012 1:25 pm

Very nice images, well done!

I think this kind of studio shoots brings the photomacrography to the next level, when also incorporating things to the scene that also make the picture tell a story.

Once again, very well done!

Regards,

Conny