After the Rain

[Geoff M]

I took a stroll to the local Botanic Gardens with the XF60 macro and XP1 in search of a few frogs following the deluge of rain in the past few days. Only managed to find one little fella in amongst the vegetation and he did not hang a round for long once I pointed the lens at him!

f3.6, 1/100s, ISO2000

[ozimax]

Excellent capture Geoff. I love frogs and we get plenty of them up here on the north coast. We found a micro frog at the greengrocer the other day. He was tiny, about 5-6mm long. BTW, I now have a shiny new Fuji 56mm in my possession. I've only taken a few dozen pics with it, but it seems incredible right from the outset. Happy days...

[zafra52]

I was going to say "exquisite", but it has epicurean connotations and I am not into frog legs, so I will settle for " simply beautiful!"

[Geoff M]

Excellent capture Geoff. I love frogs and we get plenty of them up here on the north coast. We found a micro frog at the greengrocer the other day. He was tiny, about 5-6mm long. BTW, I now have a shiny new Fuji 56mm in my possession. I've only taken a few dozen pics with it, but it seems incredible right from the outset. Happy days...

Thanks Ozi.......this frog was approx 20mm long. I would be most interested to hear your feedback on the 56. It was not on my radar having the 60mm but it seems that I may just have to add it also! I have my b'day coming in May so who knows what may show up.

I was going to say "exquisite", but it has epicurean connotations and I am not into frog legs, so I will settle for " simply beautiful!"

Thanks Zaf.

[Manta]

Love it Geoff. Those little Eastern Sedge Frogs are the cutest things and make stunning macro subjects. Nice capture.

[Matt. K]

Nice image. Whilst I am a great fan of low contrast imagery, I think in this case a tad more contrast might improve the image. Then again, it might not.

[biggerry]

focus and depth of field aside... noting they are both pretty good. The pastel colours just do it for me. I am gonna go against MattK here and say the contrast is nice as it is, however for me, I would have added some vignetting since the viewer gets drawn to the brighter parts of the frame which are the corners.

[Geoff M]

Thanks Simon, Matt & Gerry.

I do have another image with higher contrast and which does provide the frog more presence in the frame but for me the subtlety of this rendition won over. I have not tried a vignette however so thanks for the suggestion.


Geoff