THEME: It's a matter of perspective

[Nancy Bell]

While photographing daylilies I noticed tiny black ants in some of them. At first I thought I wanted a "real" picture of an ant, all in focus. Then I decided I really just wanted the perspective of the tiny ant in the seemingly huge cavern of the day lily. No special effects post production, so maybe this is a "real" picture of an ant, after all!

BTW, reds and greens are coming out more saturated in my WEB versions that my larger JPEGS. I just moved to a new computer and lost all my previous settings. Is there something that I should be adjusting for the WEB version?

[Anita Bower]

Great image! I love the little black ant perched on the edge of a precipice. The lines seem to radiate from the little critter. Excellent shallow dof. The limited number of colors helps make this a striking image!
What camera, lens and settings did you use?

[Adhika Lie]

Actually this is very nice. I am wishing for the ant to be much more closer to the bottom of the frame to highlight that feeling of it going into a huge cave. But you can't tell the ant where to be. I love the color here actually. Have you tried different browser? I am on Chrome/MacBook Air combo and saw the same color when I download the picture and open it on Preview.

[Cheryl Slechta]

I love the ant and the perspective, Nancy! Hopefully Diane will chime in and fix your new computer problem.

[Nancy Bell]

Anita, I used the Canon 5D Mark III, my go to camera for all my macro images of flowers & insects, with the Canon 100 macro lens. Settings were 1/500, f2.8, ISO 2000.

Adhika, I did try to tell the ants where to be. I had a tiny stick and thought I could encourage them where I wanted them. They often just climbed on my stick and took no suggestions from me!

[Dennis Bishop]

I like where the ant is in relation to the curvature of the petal, and I agree with Adhika about the colors. I don't know if it would've made the lily seem more cavernous or not, but I wonder how it would look with focus stacking of the nearer parts of the petal (if the ant were willing to cooperate, of course).

[Nancy Bell]

Dennis, I'm pretty sure the ant would not stand for any useful focus stacking!

[Dennis Bishop]

Dennis, I'm pretty sure the ant would not stand for any useful focus stacking!

Great pun!!!