Hello,
Motivated by Mike’s post on the Russian guy who has some amazing ant compositions, I thought I’d go out and try to photograph some ants myself. It was hard!
These guys move quickly and their glossy, black bodies don’t handle flash illumination very well. I tried the manual focus MP-E65 and gave up after a couple of hours with only one keeper.
I then tried the trusty old 100mm F2.8 on auto focus and managed to at least have the ant in focus, although getting one centred in the frame was still horrendously difficult compared to the slow moving beetles and spiders I have been shooting of late.
So, here are the fruits of my labour; not all pretty and with a few technical/technique problems but I guess practice will (eventually!) make perfect!
Cheers
Dennis