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Nectar Nibbler
Nectar Nibbler
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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Location: Felda Fl
Date: Jun 3, 2008
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Macro, Floral
Date Uploaded: Jun 5, 2008

Viewed: 486
Comments: 13
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 An ant making off with the nectar from a small compound flower. This was shot using a manual focus Nikkor 16mm fisheye and a Vivitar close focusing 2X telextender. That combo will focus right to the front element of the lens. By the lens being a wide fisheye, the DOF is big, even at this magnification factor. The lens was touching the flower when I shot this. It's noisy looking because the original file was very dark. The noise looks like canvas, so I left it that way.


Existing light, with monopod. The flower that the ant is on is a little smaller than an ordinary pencil eraser.

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 11/07/2011 05:47:55 PM
Reminds me of jmritz's technique. Nice work.
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 06/18/2008 12:40:44 PM
I agree, the noise does give it a canvas look. I really like the softness of this. Hard to believe that flower is really so small!
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 06/07/2008 06:04:47 PM
I like the look the noise gives this shot. You're right it does look like canvas. Nice coloure combinations and amazing detail to be able to see the pinchers on the ant.
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 06/07/2008 08:37:30 AM
Very good edit. You did a great job bringing out the subdued colouring of the original.
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 06/07/2008 05:03:24 AM
You certainly did bring out an amazing amount of color and detail based on that before image! Hard to believe you got that with a MONOPOD! I agree, there is a lot of noise, but you already knew that. Comes down to artistic preference right?
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 06/06/2008 01:46:43 PM
I love the colors you brought out- amazing & vibrant- interesting how you got this & also think the noise looks like an overlay & is nice :)
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 06/06/2008 07:20:54 AM
Interesting way of achieving the shot! I always find it difficult to get a nice macro capture with my monopod, very nicely done!
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 06/06/2008 06:30:41 AM
Amazing shot. Love the colors. I like the grain (noise), too.
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 06/06/2008 06:28:26 AM
Great detail and interesting approach to getting the shot. I've tried the reversed 50mm trick on a zoom but this sounds like it might have a little more margin for error that would make focussing easier.
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 06/06/2008 06:17:40 AM
Love the light and focus and the bright colors. Your comments are very interesting too. I'm not much of a stickler for noise, but in this case I think Neat Image would improve the image.
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 06/06/2008 02:55:22 AM
I like the colors and the soft feel of this shot though I do agree that it looks a bit noisey.
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 06/05/2008 09:41:10 AM
Lovely colours and a heck of an approach to getting the shot :- )
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 06/05/2008 08:01:54 AM
Interesting way to get the macro shot. The colours are fantastic, though there seems to be quite a lot of noise which is surprising at 200 ISO. I tried noise ninja on it and it worked a treat
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