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Life at the nest
Life at the nest
CarlvanHeerden


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Challenge: Life III (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Canon EOS-40D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: Farmyard
Date: Jan 11, 2009
Aperture: f8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250th
Galleries: Animals, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2009

 Very difficult this one! I learnt a few things here. Spot metering will get it wrong most of the time and other ways of metering are even more useless. So to get detail on these black bodies is very difficult. The movement is incredibel. To get 50 photos in focus, you need to take over 1,000 photos. To freeze the movement of ants you need SS of at least 1/300 sec. Depth of field will be a fraction of a millimeter. I would have liked another day to try and reflect some more light on the scene and try something with amanual focus set-up, but I ran out of time. So here we go - I'll wait to see what the clever people say.

Just did some basic editing. Picture style to portrait, Whit balance to shade, increased brightnes, decreased contrast, sharpened, cropped. Edited highlights on the body.

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Place: 153 out of 200
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/18/2009 06:55:49 PM
hate ants. But, considering the size of the subject, you've done very well picking up details and keeping focus.
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 01/18/2009 09:20:08 AM
That ant in the background is totally cool!
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 01/15/2009 11:10:51 AM
Nice macro, but I think it would look more impressive if you ran it through Unsharp Mask or something to sharpen it up a bit.
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 01/14/2009 07:26:58 AM
Amazingly close view of an ant.
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 01/13/2009 04:44:10 PM
A good macro.... ants are very interesting insects. We don't see many ant macros on here so it's a nice change to a bee, butterfly or a stick insect!

I think this might have been better in black and white because the colours are quite bland, and more focus on the object its moving too.
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 01/13/2009 01:45:36 PM
tough shot to get. good to see some surrounding as well.
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 01/12/2009 02:48:12 PM
Nice effort, but out of focus
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