Taken outside my house, a huge swarm of ants on my back porch. I took an apple piece, placed it in the middle of the pile of ants, and gave them a few minutes to swarm over it. Not a particularly inspiring shot, but I thought it was interesting. I set my ISO at 1600 so I could stop down for a depth of field yet still keep a fast enough shutter speed.
Post processing:
Levels, color balance to bring out the yellow/green of the apple, make the ants a little more purple/blue for contrast. Increased saturation, cropped, sharpened, save for web.
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LOL, that's not an apple, that WAS an apple. Way to go on the originality, and the shot is nicely centred. Though there are a few distracting elements, I still like it. I sure wouldn't want to be an apple with a swarm of ants like that around :P
Wow that's an ant pile! Maybe a tighter shot of just a few ants would of scored this higher. Right now it's just ants on an apple. I hope this is making sense.
While at first glance this may seem repulsive, this is actually a very compelling portrait of natural phenomena. You have captured the intense feel of the swarm with clarity and depth. Nice photojournalism.
great idea, good macro, nice DoF ...
i suppose you set this up? it would have been even better if the apple had not been this amorphous lump but had some skin visible or something like that.
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