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-- Greg Rothschild (gnr@toast.net), April 01, 1999

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-- Chris Hawkins (peace@clover.net), April 02, 1999.

The glare on the water is distracting. A polarizer would make the water black (and reduce some of the glare on the skin as well) while allowing more of the frog's limbs to be visible. As for composition, I would prefer to have the forg looking into the frame more. Was this on a tripod? If not, you could have used one to allow you to open up more and get all of the frog in focus. In my experience, they will hold pretty still if you're careful. Sharpness is great, though, on the animal's eye, and that is the most important thing. Also, how about some tech info? Thanks for posting! Too few people pay any attention to herps. Peter May used to, but now he only posts birds. :)

-- Joe Cheatwood (cheatwoo@ufl.edu), April 02, 1999.

Joe- i will keep the polarizer in mind next time i see this guy. as for a tripod- it was shot with 600mm of glass (300mm and 2x), 30mm (+/-) of extension tube, and a shutter speed of around 1"-1/8 of a second so take a guess. i also used mirror lock-up. i imagine that since the shots were sharp at these long exposures, the additional loss of light from the polarizer wouldn't make too much of a difference. it'll be in my bag next time.

-- Greg Rothschild (gnr@toast.net), April 02, 1999.

I really like the composition. The branch dipping in from the top left and the pads pointing in from the bottom right, draw the eye straight to the frog's snout. I'm not too bothered by the water reflection either. If you did use the pola, you certainly would not want to make the water transparent; maybe just "dialed in" a bid. Well done Greg.

-- Mike Green (mgprod@mindspring.com), April 03, 1999.

Despite the reflections this is one of the more appealing bullfrog images that I've seen of late. Good work!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), April 05, 1999.


I like this picture a lot also, although I agree that less glare would improve it even further. I especially like the slightly off-skew angle of the frog -- a refreshing change from the much more common direct side or front shots. And what a wonderfully speckled specimen!

-- John Sullivan (sullivan@spies.com), April 05, 1999.

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