Laughing frog Photo

Photographer’s Note

The same pond I presented in "Tree reflection", again a reflection, but this time from a citizen. She's called the "Laughing frog". The colours can be green or brown. The catch was quite difficult. The camera was only a few centimeters over the water, I had to set digital zoom on and they were a lot of reeds. Camera was at about 1m of the frog, and the focal length here is a 300mm equiv. Picture is cropped top and right. You can hear it at Laughing frog

sunny, Rinie_Hoff, elihesamian, nwoehnl, steffleu, pamastro, taivo, prlcs, Kenny10pin, papagolf21, gelor has marked this note useful

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carper (65028) 2004-06-06 14:26

Wow Carlos,
Great shot, good reflexion, good colours, I know how differcult it is to make such a photo. Great composition too, maybe a little bit overlight on the head of the fog, but that the moment, great job.

sunny (3068) 2004-06-06 15:29

I think that this is quite a good macro, being shot from 1 m from the frog, Carlos! :-) Wonderful water reflection, together with the lovely green colours and the frog's skin texture is really great here. I like that part where it looks as if silver, because of the falling light. Very well done!

bertolucci (11976) 2004-06-06 15:52

Wow the first shot on TE with audio back up, Carlos! I love it. The picture of this partly submerged frog looks very mysterious due to the reflections and the translucence of the water. The colour is great and the shadow patterns on the water adds a nice tension. Very fine work!

Rinie_Hoff (9332) 2004-06-06 15:56

Hi Carlos, I have the luaghing frog laughing in the background, they can drive you crazy, do you know that?
very good capture, especially with the digital zoom. Mine's always came out so very noisy. I like the light on her back. The green of the water is very intense, and the reflection is great! I expect you got wet yourself, too?;-)

elihesamian (26091) 2004-06-06 15:59

nice detailes,clear & sharp,With great reflection,with audio:))),very nice,Thanks for sharing,carlos!

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nwoehnl (120) 2004-06-06 17:48

I try to avoid using digital zoom by all means, but here I have to commend you on the great result you got, Carlos. Very good how the curious eyes of the Seefrosch stand out almost 3D, and the reflection increases the effect. Nice, very green composition. The link to the sound is great, too - well done!

steffleu (1373) 2004-06-06 18:39

Ben je me suis toujours demandé si c'était des crapeaux ou des grenouilles , maintenant je sais , et en plus elles rient. merci ! Peut être un peu trop bruitée dans les zones sombres , l'image est très bonne , le but , à mon avis , dans ce genre photo est de faire ressortir l'oeil de la grenouille et c'est très réussi ! bravo.

pamastro (7213) 2004-06-07 2:08

Very neat capture. The frog really seems to be just coming out to check on what's going on. It has a stalking feel, too. The textures here are great and the reflection, too. And very nice greens and yellows mixing up here. Great job.

Garry01 (0) 2004-06-07 2:42

Bonjour Carlos,

J'admire la patience que vous avez du avoir pour réaliser cette photo... et comme vous avez eu raison. le résultat est de bonne facture, très sympa Carlos. Merci.

Ps. les paysages que vous présentez, sont d'une rare beauté. Excellent

taivo (1840) 2004-06-07 3:17

Quite unexpected shot from you, Carlos, but that shows that you are a versatile photographer as I said earlier. You did really "freeze" the moment because the frog and the ripples are sharp. At the bottom left, are those the reflections of tree branches from above of did you actually captured some details under the water?

prlcs (63) 2004-06-07 3:20

Portrait très réussi. J'aime beaucoup la composition qui laisse de l'espace devant la grenouille et nous laisse devnier ce vers quoi elle se dirige. Bravo Carlos !

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lost (694) 2004-06-07 5:53 [Comment]

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vbourrut (30583) 2004-06-07 5:55

Belle image, ca fait des semaines que je cherche une grenouille à photographier, mais c'est encore un peu tot je pense par ici...
sinon juste une petite information, le zoom digital ne t'apporte rien, tu aurais obtenu le meme résultat en recadrant l'image et en l'agrandissant sous photoshop...

Kenny10pin (19301) 2004-06-07 6:05

great shot here, I like the frog, it looks very big and very dangerous. You ahev done well with detail and I havent seena frog swim before, well done

papagolf21 (56483) 2004-06-08 5:23

Une photo qui demande beaucoup de maîtrise photographique et physique (attention de ne pas tomber dans l'eau) ;-)
Beaucoup de détails et des couleurs magnifiques. J'aime le reflet de la grenouille dans l'eau et la transparence de cette dernière.

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jrzufferey (7249) 2004-06-13 9:58

J'aime beaucoup ta photographie, elle est très belle pour cette grenouille au regard puissant,mais aussi et surtout pour sont reflet dans l'eau, magnifique. Ce camaïeu de vert pour le fond et le sujet est bien également très beau./jr

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