Hello,
Here’s my latest series on ants. The location must have looked like a David Attenborough documentary shoot! I had 2 tripods set up. The main one with the 7D/100mm F2.8/580 EXII and the 2nd one had two clamps; one to hold the branch still (well, still’ish) the other to hold a small piece of floral wall paper as a back drop, to avoid the black background typical of flash shots.
It took around an hour to set up and get everything in position and the ants came out to play several times. The BGs do like a little synthetic but I do prefer them to a black BG.
A much less stressful session than trying to record the NEO 2012 EG5 on its recent 0.6LD fly-by!
Cheers
Dennis
PS – I’ve also included a couple of an acrobatic “non-jumping” jumping spider!