Fire ants

[Joshi Bhavya]

This Weekend, I am Trying to take some ants photographs. But I failed to get proper shot with clear ants with details in this body,this white spot Ruined everything because of Built flash.:sad:

I have try without flash.. in direct sun light. but same problem, I give another chance with no sun light no flash, take a shot in shadow. take a couple of shots, try different exif setting like( F7 to 16, SS- 125 to 4000), cropped hard but 0 result.

I understand that 100mm macro is not enough for this macro. :bored:

without cropped this small ants images not get much result.. so I am sharing this image of common fire ant or red ant (need proper Id) standing in two legs.
With canon 550D, Canon 100 mm macro
F:5.0
ISO:100
SS:125
Crop hard ,Remove some White spot, BG natural.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

You are cropping because the subject is not magnified enough. In this respect the 180mm macro lens is better. With the 100mm macro lens, you can use extension tubes.

[Vikram Gupchup]

Ants are tricky to photograph. You were lucky to have one pose for you.
:001_smile:

Use flash compensation around -1.5 for macros . Try using a flash diffuser .Just wrap some tissue paper around the flash and see if the white spots reduce.

[Joshi Bhavya]

thanks for suggest Vikram.. Diffuser is good Idea..