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Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted April 13, 201495 views5 comments

Folks,

Found this today, and I have a task on my hands in the coming weeks I guess. I could not get into a composition mode, as its was raining red ants. This nest of the red ant( weaver) is at 3 ft from the ground, and the there are a few on the over head tree. I had them on my view finder, inside my shirt, and on my hands and tripod.

I need to work on this one in the coming weeks.
7D 70 200F4L, extn tubes, 400ISO, f8, 1/160

Many thanks NPN for your support

Balan Vinod

Answering Johns question.There is a plant under a tree canopy. The plant thats about 3 feet in height, and has about four nests in them. Each of the nests carefully sewed with about 2 or three leaves. The tree to has a few nests in them. I had set up my tripod at eye level of one of the nests.

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Rick Cloran on April 13, 2014 at 9:44 PM

Nice shot. That one ant stands out well and then you find the second peeking out of the "nest" where the weaving is going on. I think this works well, particularly where you were getting the Gulliver treatment. Do you have a regular macro that you might be able to put a 2x on to maintain some added working distance or are you limited to the tubes on the 70-200?

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Comment posted by scott lanz on April 14, 2014 at 8:08 AM

Nicely composed, Balan. Like Rick, I like the second ant peeking out from underneath the leaf. Nice work getting both in focus, and an excellent image of the ants doing their stuff.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on April 14, 2014 at 11:07 PM

The prime ant adds a fine golden transparency and the nearly hidden ant is a nice touch. I hope they don't bite too hard.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on April 15, 2014 at 12:16 AM

Nice work Balan, where were you when you took this? I had to take a second look to see the second ant. thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on April 16, 2014 at 7:55 AM

Balan, Beautiful color and translucency in the big ant. The stem leads the viewer into a nice surprise, the second ant. I like the “movement” and story in this. Hope you are fine.

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