Its Frog time

[Plasmasnow]

I decided to post this picture because I would like some feed back on it. It was just as the sun was going down and it scared the @^%$ out of me as just jumped and hit me in the leg

[Geoff F]

For me, Keith, there isn't sufficient difference between the frog and the background - but that is why the frog is there.

So I would crop tighter to lose some of the background. Possibly change to a portrait format (perhaps 4 x 5 ratio) then add a little selective sharpening on just the frog.

I think that would create a lot more impact. There is a good photo in that scene, it just needs discovering.

[ktuli]

What kind of lighting was illuminating this frog? The purple stripes running down its back look a little odd to me. Honestly - I almost feel like he's lit by a neon sign or a bug zapper...

- Bill

[Plasmasnow]

Thanks Geoff I'll try working on the pic a bit more.
ktuli, thats the actual colour of the frog. The only lighting I had was what was left of the sun.

[LeoLeo]

Keith,
Hope you don't mind, but this is how I crope/rotate the picture. Unfortunatelly, my PP skills are not my best points (Wonder if there are any ...)



Leo

[Plasmasnow]

That totally rocks, that looks 100% better.

[Peter Ryan]

Hi Keith,

Just wondering what the colour of the frog actually was? Did it have those blue highligths to the naked eye, as shown here, or did it happen in camera?

[Plasmasnow]

Peter, that was the actual colour of the frog.

[ktuli]

Peter, that was the actual colour of the frog.

That is crazy... it looks like a leopard frog, but I've never seen one with that kind of coloration. Do you see them often with that kind of color?

- Bill

[Plasmasnow]

ktuli, its a frog to me I've seen them a couple of times around where I live, that was the first time I had a camera.