Ants on a milk container

After the mirror, decided just to use a piece of plastic milk container to put the honey on to reduce the light reflections. I also tried to write "LordV" in honey only to find the honey promptly returned to it's original droplets when i wasn't looking - Some interesting surface effects going on.

Brian V.

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Brian, I can see it now:

"Ants on things, eating stuff." A series by LordV .

Awesome pics. It's too bad about honey having enough surface tension to ruin your spelling test. Would it work if you used a very, very small applicator to "write" your name in honey?

AirBrontosaurus wrote in post #3953583
Brian, I can see it now:

"Ants on things, eating stuff." A series by LordV .

Awesome pics. It's too bad about honey having enough surface tension to ruin your spelling test. Would it work if you used a very, very small applicator to "write" your name in honey?

Thanks Chris for the comments

Suspect I just need a surface that doesn't have such high honey repellant forces (suspect my next shots will just be an animation of honey moving around by itself ).

Brian V.

Great shots again Brian.

Does the honey keep them still for very long, or are they just as active (and hard to capture) as normal?

Looking forward to the morphing honey...

dreamline wrote in post #3954011
Great shots again Brian.

Does the honey keep them still for very long, or are they just as active (and hard to capture) as normal?

Looking forward to the morphing honey...

Thanks- no they stay fairly still when feeding like this apart from moving their antennae all the time which does create a focus stacking headache.
Brian V.

Excellent work Brian -again I like the singles more than the group shots

I did something similar with sugar water and fig leaves -didn't want anything reflective but did want the ants to look as if they were in a natural setting.

LordV wrote in post #3954031
Thanks- no they stay fairly still when feeding like this apart from moving their antennae all the time which does create a focus stacking headache.
Brian V.

It's a headache even if you shoot unstacked like I do. I can't tell you how many images I've deleted just because the ant stuck an antenna right in front of its eye just as I was pressing the shutter release. Bees too...

those 'thorns' protruding from their thorax look deadly. excellent detail, I must put some honey out and see what comes along - usually ants and wasps.

i like number one, except for the fact its just on white paper or something. great details, how about honey on a giant leaf of some sort?

My advice.....get thicker honey for your signwriting LOL!! Fantastic pics Brian!!

Thanks for the comments John, Toby, Jay & Joan - much appreciated.
Joan- you could be right- think it was "pouring" honey
Brian V.

Great set Brian. Just pop the honey in the fridge to make it thicker.

Have you tried Nippon, ants love that stuff.
They keep still for a long time too!

Great pics. The detail is pretty amazing. #1 makes them look quite cute all lined up and behaving themselves lol

Linda

OMG, these are amazing! Is this ,mp65?