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Challenge: Sugar (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Jul 20, 2008
Aperture: f/16
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Macro, Insects, etc
Date Uploaded: Jul 20, 2008

 Sprinkled water (so the sugar would stick), then sugar on a daylily to attract the ants. Worked pretty well. Actually I have a picture of another flower (I sprinkled several) with way more ants but I like the colors and swirls better on this one.

Played with an extension tube to get better detail. Had to bump up the ISO but I'm pretty happy with the resulting DOF and I didn't have to crop as much.

Not expecting a great score because there are bound to be lovely, enticing photos that appeal to people way more than a bunch of ants eating sugar. But it's not as gross as having them swarming over something I might want to eat!

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, dodged a tiny bit on foreground ants, cloned out hair from dirty lens (d'oh), increased saturation on lower left pink bits, dodged/burnt/blurred parts of background more, added border, resized, sharpened with noise reduction.

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Place: 60 out of 114
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Olympus E-5
Olympus 7-14mm f/4.0 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 07/27/2008 04:13:37 PM
Party time! Imagine eating something that tastes so good and it's 100 times your size. Paradise.
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Nikon D70
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5 ED-IF
 07/22/2008 01:02:06 PM
nice sharp focus with such a shallow DOF.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 07/21/2008 05:40:18 PM
After shooting for this challenge, these little beasts were all over my kitchen! Good macro shot, I like the texture and color.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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