Macro of an ant, colours inverted, desaturated and contrast/levels adjusted. It's inspired by the movie "Pi - faith in chaos" which I have recently seen. It's a black&white movie (although from 1998) and a bug like this plays an important role. The movie is a bit weird and different from normal movies (exactly how I like it ;-)) but definitively worth watching.
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Composition Because your background is almost unseeable, the composition is hard to judge - the ant is nearly centered, but coming into the shot, which is good. I would have preferred an even tighter crop on the ant.
Color I don't like what you did with this, but that's just my preference. Obviously you had an idea - it wasn't communicated to us because we couldn't see notes during the challenge.
Focus Off, but you know that (given your comments).
Subject matter Good choice of subject. I would have preferred the ant doing something, or going somewhere, thought.
Overall Post-processing kills this for me, but you wanted to do it - don't be disheartened by this score. Sometimes you kill a shot, sometimes you really do extremely well. One of your shots (Edison's Gift) is one of my 3 favorite shots on this site - keep shooting!
Focus, focus, focus. It's always the same people complain about ;-) I liked the fuzziness.
I understand that the "Pi" connection couldn't be understood by many, but I thought that the image would be interesting to some more people. Seems that I was wrong. :-/
Anyway, thanks to the people who commented and said that they like the photo.
P.S.: As described in the photographers comments, the image is colour inverted and not infrared.
Interesting use of (I think) inverse black and white. The ant shows up very well, but some of the detail seems to be lost. (Calling this Albino Ant might have confused some of these issues for the better) 6 Rob the Swash
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