Curious about why you’d want to pay attention to that f/number on your camera settings? Consider: Same subject, same lens, same camera, very different image.
Curious about why you'd want to pay attention to that f/number on your camera settings? Consider:
An Ecuadorian Ectatomma ant photographed with the aperture wide open, f/2.8
The same ant photographed with the aperture closed down to f/13. The flash power was turned up to compensate.
Same subject, same lens, same camera, very different image.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Alex Wild
Alex Wild is Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studies the evolutionary history of ants. In 2003 he founded a photography business as an aesthetic complement to his scientific work, and his natural history photographs appear in numerous museums, books and media outlets.
