Focus Stacked Image of a Carpenter Ant
Jul 21, 2020 22:53:49 #
Jul 21, 2020 22:55:34 #
JRiepe wrote:
Impressive job.
Thanks, I try to make the most out of everything that I come across and ants, flies and certain beetles are in abundance now.
Jul 22, 2020 06:26:13 #
Jul 22, 2020 06:45:10 #
Jul 22, 2020 07:16:45 #
Yes I was looking at the mandibles on that bad boy in the download and wondered if they use them to bite. Then I read your narrative. I must say that you have this lighting down. You have highlighted every detail that needs to be seen. So well done.
-Doc
-Doc
Jul 22, 2020 09:17:07 #
Jul 22, 2020 09:18:21 #
lbjed wrote:
Reminds me of the old movie, "THEM"
Thanks, Perhaps it's a good thing that we don't often see things in a magnified view.
Jul 22, 2020 09:24:42 #
docshark wrote:
Yes I was looking at the mandibles on that bad boy in the download and wondered if they use them to bite. Then I read your narrative. I must say that you have this lighting down. You have highlighted every detail that needs to be seen. So well done.
-Doc
-Doc
Thanks, Doc. I believe that I found a lighting technique that is working out well for me. The little bugger clamped down on one of my fingers that join the palm and it held on tight until I got it into the kill-jar and that was the end of his heroic battle.
Jul 22, 2020 10:01:31 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a Black Carpenter Ant that I found while throwing out the trash this morning. I scooped it up in my hand and brought it in and prepared it for a focus stacking session. They don't like to be held and the tend to bite. I've done others in the past and they make convenient and interesting specimens.
Those suckers can destroy the heart of an entire tree in short-order. We have them and they are prolific.
Jul 22, 2020 10:57:43 #
Jul 22, 2020 10:59:05 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
They don't like to be held and the tend to bite.
A classic line with so many uses!
Excellent shot!
Jul 22, 2020 12:01:44 #
Jul 22, 2020 13:05:03 #
Damn, Sippy, if Darth Vader was an insect, this is what he would be, great macro.
Jul 22, 2020 14:46:30 #
Really good work, SJ.
--Bob
--Bob
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a Black Carpenter Ant that I found while throwing out the trash this morning. I scooped it up in my hand and brought it in and prepared it for a focus stacking session. They don't like to be held and the tend to bite. I've done others in the past and they make convenient and interesting specimens.
Jul 22, 2020 16:29:04 #
Blair Shaw Jr wrote:
Those suckers can destroy the heart of an entire tree in short-order. We have them and they are prolific.
Thanks, Blair. They can be quite a nuisance however this will not be one of them any longer.
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