an ant shot with a very pretty pastel background

[JBW]

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Brian,

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I think what many may be thinking is that if you hadn't mentioned the ant, we'd never have guessed it was the subject of this shot.

I say that, rather bluntly (sorry), because you have; bold colours, water droplets and sharp leaves, all of which we see before the dark ant hiding in a dark corner. There's little contrast between the ant and the background immediately behind it.

Now, if the ant had wandered up to the top water drop (for a drink - do ants drink?), so it was against the lighter pink background AND if the ant had been much larger in the frame, THEN it would be a better picture.

I don't think you have a macro lens (yet) do you?
If you'd like to shoot bugs this small, then I think one will be necessary (or a set of extension tubes), unlike those giant butterflies and moths you sometimes show us.

HTH, Dave

[Stagecoach]

Not too bad Brian and I find this more interesting than your regular flower images.

With beautiful specimens like that ant it's time you started training them to be cooperative and pose where they can show themselves to best advantage in the image

[JBW]

Update ~ 49 and only 2 comments.

I do believe that ants drink but no guaranty. Nope still the one and only lens. I had thought of 'Ant Approaches Mars' as a title.

Truth be told I love the colours and the shapes. perhaps I should have cloned out the ant. But I like the ant.

The real problem for me is with Grahame's comment. 'I find this more interesting than your regular flower images.'

It is a problem not because you are wrong Graham but because I have been feeling the need to expand my 'regular' shots. This means overcoming two basic realities. the limitation of my local and of my skills.

For the next how many months we will be landscaping to give me new vistas. I'm working on the skills. As i said to Dave in another post Daisy Mae has inspired me and I am on a quest to find ways to put as much into my shots as she does into hers. Considering the difference in our subject matter I think i have quite the challenge ahead of me.

What I will need as much as anything else is the continued teaching/mentoring/nagging that is supplied by both of you and as others too.
B.