Extreme Frog

Gallery: WildlifePosted May 11, 201369 views8 comments

Extreme because of severe crop and processing. I believe this worked out well but *really* want opinions on sharpness (over sharpened?) and have I gone too far in cropping. Some cloning to twigs and grasses.

Olympus E-5
50-200mm @147mm FL
1/320 sec @ f8
-2.0 ev
ISO 100

tripod and cropped to approximately 25% of FF

Large view

Will greatly appreciate critique and comments.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Peter Cross on May 12, 2013 at 12:02 AM

The sharpness looks fine, Charlie. Very nice portrait of this frog. I think you could crops some more. I'd crop on the right up to the plant leaf. The part of the body to the right of that doesn't give anything to the image. I'd then crop on the left to balance it, however you want. Color is nice and the eye with catch light is spot on. Are those frog eggs in the photo?

Registered on April 3, 2010, 271 Posts, 1342 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Atkinson on May 12, 2013 at 7:12 AM

I agree with Peter on the sharpening; I think it looks spot on. I also think the cropping is good as is. Any more and you start to lose a perspective of where the guy is.

Registered on July 22, 2005, 20 Posts, 171 Comments

Comment posted by Ken Watkins on May 12, 2013 at 9:28 AM

Charlie,
This looks OK to me, but I wonder if you have given any thought to "removing" the grass cutting through the head, it must be worth a try?

Registered on December 15, 2010, 1537 Posts, 4877 Comments

Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on May 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM

I have thought about different crops and may yet settle on one. There was a grass stem right in front of the eye and I cloned that out and it made significant difference and looked so much better that I just left the other blade. It would be easy to clone that and I probably will.

Thanks all.

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Comment posted by Charlie Baugh on May 12, 2013 at 10:42 AM

Oh, and I believe that frog spawn is black. That is just froth around that rock, I think.

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Comment posted by Don Westbrook on May 12, 2013 at 11:52 PM

I think you did really well in the processing. I like the crispness of the colors and the sharpness.

Registered on January 4, 2013, 11 Posts, 332 Comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 13, 2013 at 3:28 PM

Charlie the sharpness look ok to me and I could not suggest a better crop the only thing that distracts and it can't be helped is the stem through the nose of the Frog, its a very nice image and I wish it was mine.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Tim Butler on May 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM

I love this Charlie! Crispness and detail are spot on IMHO.

Registered on October 12, 2012, 17 Posts, 155 Comments