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Decided to take a hike at the nature center today and came across a pond with a bunch of frogs in it. Comments/Critique welcome :)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/...83855f58_o.jpg
50D w/ EF 70-200 f/2.8L + 1.4x @ 280mm f/5.6 1/25sec ISO 100 handheld, no flash
Hi, Alex.
It could be included in school books as a good illustration to Depth of Field topic, IMO.
Nice photo of Mr. Frog. It would've been nice if there was just a tad more catch light in his left eye, but i suppose he wasn't in the mood to be posed.
make that his RIGHT eye.
hi alex....... nice shot, i like the duckweed all over the place.
Dont really have any critiques on the photo, Great shot!
Thanks! Here's another one of him looking back over his shoulder at me.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/...ac7a5576_o.jpg
also a great shot, but personally i prefer the first one with the solid green composition apose to the break up of blue and green in this one.
Fantastic picture Alex!
I'm looking back to my science textbook in Highschool as a cover. I agree with erno, a bity more of light in its right eye would have been nice, but hey, that's what post is for ;)
Nice, but I prefer the first one. I'd rather have the gaze direction point to where there's more space in the frame; in the second shot, he looks constrained by the edge of the frame.
Great shot Alex. I really like it, great colors and composition!
I'm only wondering how you did your focus. Did you use AF? And so, at what point?
It just seems like the focus plane is about right between the eyes and therefor the right-eye is just a tad out of focus. A bit more front-focussing would make this photo perfect in my opinion.
Jan
Thanks for your replies! I had to manually focus. For some reason autofocus didn't work (I'm sure because of the reflective nature of the frogs skin). It was extremely hard to tell what I was focusing on. What looked to be in focus in the viewfinder was slightly off when looking at the photo later. Not to mention the uncomfortable tree I was leaning against to get that shutter speed without IS lol
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Originally Posted by alex.krebiehl
If that happens, try using Live View (with magnification) to focus.
Really Alex, for such a close-up with 280mm lens on a crop body, hand-held and manual focus, you did pretty darn good [Y] My true compliments for that[H]
I guess you don't have a special focussing screen installed in your 50D?
It was probably a lot easier with a 100mm macro lens, but then you probably couldn't get this close. For the given circumstances, my respect [:D]
I reallly couldn't use live view given the circumstances. Between the awkward position and the slow shutter speed it would have been near impossible to hold it like that.
And no, I only have the standard screen that comes with the camera. I suppose I could have upped the ISO a bit to raise my keeper-rate (obviously at that focal length and speed, most of the photos blurred), but I was too focused on not falling into the pond or scaring the frog away to notice until after the fact lol. He was pretty close, just touching the MFD of that lens
Perhaps you could have used a higher ISO? ISO400 would have left you with a 1/100 shutterspeed. But pretty good to have a sharp shot at this focal length handheld...