Frog photos :)

[blacknstormy]

Litoria pearsoniana - cascade frog - vulnerable under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.


Lechriodus fletcheri - black soled frog


Mixophyes fasciolatus - great barred frog


Adelotus brevis - female tusked frog -vulnerable under Queensland's Nature Conservation Act 1992.

[ATJ]

mmmm... frogs. Frogs are always nice to see.

Unfortunately, for me, the small size of the images and the amount of compressing makes it difficult to see how good these images really are. Each seems to have a lot of JPEG compression artifacts.

[blacknstormy]

Thanks Andrew - I didn't want to post larger sizes and take up too much 'space'

This is a link to the originals - again they are compressed jpgs, so not as good as the originals, but they'll do
http://www.pbase.com/narellepower/australian_frogs

[The Scorpion Man]

Very nice...I'm a big frog fan. I was the last person to ever find Rheobatrachus silus in the wild, very sad to see so many frogs go the way of the dinosaur. Very nice portraits here.....do you have any of Litoria tyleri?

[The Scorpion Man]

I checked out your site images....all very nice. The tyleri shots are very good, similar in many respects to peroni. Can you disclose what equipment and lighting etc you use?

[ATJ]

Thanks for the link, Rel, as I suspected, the larger images are much better. You have some great shots there. Very nice.

[blacknstormy]

Thanks again

Andrew - hopefully I'm getting better - I do love shooting frogs though - 3/4 of the fun is actually finding them

Mark - shooting info : D700, iso 200 (usually), f 16-22, 1/250, SB800, PJ Lightsphere and diffusion dome,and the nikon 105 macro lens
(all of these shots iso 200, brevis shot f18, fletcheri f20, pearsoniana f20, fasciolatus f20)

I was the last person to ever find Rheobatrachus silus in the wild

A privilege, but a sad privilege
That is one of the things that I really hate about what we do - if it is a survey for development, you know that whatever you see won't be there for long at least with our council work, it is usually for a conservation reserve, so it makes the job all the more sweet !!!!

[ATJ]

Rel,

How do you manage to the the shots of calling frogs? Whenever I come across a calling frog it usually gives up pretty quickly and before I get a chance to take a photograph.

[blacknstormy]

Find it first , and then sit in the dark and wait. After a while the frog will start calling again, and as you are already near it and it has 'hopefully' become a little more used to you , it usually continues on if you gently turn on your light (I use a headlamp). I already have my camera settings all done before I get near the frog, and slowly put the camera up and take the shot. If the frog is really skitty, I'll focus on the frog with my light on, set myself up (camera to eye and ready to go) and turn my light off, still with the camera up ready to take the shot. That way when the frog starts to call, I'll take my shot "in the dark" and not startle the frog into not calling. I hope this makes sense ???? I've found a lot of frogs once they start calling, just continue on oblivious to me, as long as I approach slow and gentle, not go in like an elephant - they really carry on if it is raining and they are just keen on finding a mate

[colin_12]

That makes perfect sense to me Rel.

Regards Colin