frog on rock

[Dfg]

it's been a long time sense I posted I been working a lot but I found time to take this pic of a frog in my fish pound let me know how it looks to you thanks Dave

[chauncey]

David, you have the exposure spot-on but...other problems. Your subject, as he is facing right,
should be placed in the left side of the image so as to look toward the center of the image
as opposed to looking out of the image. A severe crop could remedy that problem.
http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/s...n-photography/

Additionally, your focus seems soft...maybe too slow of a shutter speed causing camera shake.

[gregj1763]

Just looked up your exif data David, 1/25 is too slow unless you have your camera on a tripod, otherwise a nice image of a frog on a rock

[Downrigger]

Nice hues and tones for this. I agree with prior two comments - froggie might better be a little below and to left of center. Perhaps you did use tripod? No way I could get as sharp as this with 300mm at 1/25 hand-held, yet still I think a tiny bit soft.

[Geoff F]

Don't crop too tight, Dave, having some rocks gives a sense of scale. And probably makes the frog look bigger than it actually was in reality.

Possibly lose the top left corner rock and a little from top and bottom, but keep a fair bit of the greenery. Might need a different size ratio. Otherwise it looks good to me.

[Dfg]

Nice hues and tones for this. I agree with prior two comments - froggie might better be a little below and to left of center. Perhaps you did use tripod? No way I could get as sharp as this with 300mm at 1/25 hand-held, yet still I think a tiny bit soft.

how do I make it a bit harder ?

[Dfg]

I cropped it a bit let me know and Here's a front pic

[Geoff F]

how do I make it a bit harder ?

Have you applied any sharpening to the image, David? I suspect it could take just a fraction more; something like Unsharp Mask.

Possibly you didn't get the focus exactly perfect. Auto focus often fixes onto the wrong area and another problem which I often encounter is fractional subject movement when using a slow shutter speed. I like to work with something like 1/160 or a fraction faster for this sort of scene.

But, let's not get too bothered about this image sharpness, it is a good shot and the very slight softness, compared with being absolutely pin sharp, is so fractional that it doesn't really matter unless you are sending it in to be used on the cover of a wildlife magazine!

The crop is good; although I suspect this is one of those instances where everybody would crop slightly differently.

With the tight full frontal shot you are a fraction soft on the frog's nose, but the eyes are well focused; and that is the important part. I suspect you had a very shallow area of focus depth available here.