Jesper Lassen
Giant Ant #2
This is the same ant (Camponotus ligniperdus (Formicidae)) as in the previous post, this time showing a little more of the animal.
For this lower magnification shot, I have used the Canon MP35, which is becoming my go to lens for this kind of work. It's a joy to work with, extremely handy and I find the optics to be really excellent - it's a lens I would highly recommend to anyone! Actually I find it a little surprising that not more people are using it.
This was shot in a horizontal setup with an Olympus bellows. The ant was lid by two IKEA Jansjö LED lamps which was diffused by one layer of ordinary copy paper, and the background is an autumn leaf.
65 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker, mostly DMAP.
f/4, 1 sec, ISO200, ca. 3.5:1
Olympus OM-D E-M5, Canon MP 35mm f/2.8
Giant Ant #2
This is the same ant (Camponotus ligniperdus (Formicidae)) as in the previous post, this time showing a little more of the animal.
For this lower magnification shot, I have used the Canon MP35, which is becoming my go to lens for this kind of work. It's a joy to work with, extremely handy and I find the optics to be really excellent - it's a lens I would highly recommend to anyone! Actually I find it a little surprising that not more people are using it.
This was shot in a horizontal setup with an Olympus bellows. The ant was lid by two IKEA Jansjö LED lamps which was diffused by one layer of ordinary copy paper, and the background is an autumn leaf.
65 exposures stacked in Zerene Stacker, mostly DMAP.
f/4, 1 sec, ISO200, ca. 3.5:1
Olympus OM-D E-M5, Canon MP 35mm f/2.8