Carpenter Ant face

Charles Krebs · Post by **Charles Krebs** » Fri May 27, 2005 7:43 pm

Here's a pretty good look at the face of a carpenter ant. Although my favorite pond beckons, I'm still enthralled at what can be done with images stacks and software like Helicon Focus. This kind of image has eluded me for so many years... it's just fun to finally have the technology available to pull it off!

Olympus 2X Flourite, 2.5X photo-eyepiece, Canon 10D. Tungsten illumination via fiber optic illuminator and Charlie's secret ant diffuser apparatus. (OK... it's just a Fuji film container with the top cut off

). 33 images combined in using HF.

LBadrick · Post by **LBadrick** » Fri May 27, 2005 8:03 pm

Amazing Charles.

Thank you very much for sending my imagination soaring and putting a smile on my face at the start of the day.

Regards,

Lee.

Dembowski · Post by **Dembowski** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:25 am

Stunning .... absolutely stunning!!

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:15 pm

Hello Charlie,

Yet another extraordinary image of an ordinary subject! Your work is inspiring.

Welcome back,
Mike

Wim van Egmond · Post by **Wim van Egmond** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:22 am

Wonderful result, Charlie! There are so many interesting possibilities nowadays. What will the future bring?

The only difficulty with this technique is the fact that you have to have non motile subjects. But imagine a camera that takes all these stacks in one nanosecond and than immediately combine them to form a multifocal image!

Wim

piotr · Post by **piotr** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:35 pm

Beautiful and scary! It looks like Darth Ant