The season has begun! I found this cute female basking in Poor Farm Swamp while walking the rail trail last Sunday during my failed turtle search.
I continue to be impressed and babble on about the nice detail the Tamron 100-400 captures, especially with the doubler mounted to give me 800mm The above image was cropped to 50% after applying Lightroom’s Enhance feature. An even closer crop as a selfie shows the nice job it does.
I was a good distance away so my reflection isn’t as large as the previous one I shared. Aside from my form I liked the sky’s color reflected on the frog’s head. We’ve had so many cloudy and windy days, this bright sunny calm day was a real treat.
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I found the turtle you were looking for. Speaking of which, we both showed a big eye this morning.
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I noted both when seeing your post this morning.
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Nice start to the season! ‘Ri-deep!’
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Yes, a good start indeed with that nice reflection. Thanks, Eliza!
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It is pretty amazing to see the gorgeous eye close up, from a distance. Here it is still cold. I did see a bullfrog crossing a road the other day, when it was a tad warmer, but since then we’ve been woefully frog free.
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Do you know why the bullfrog crossed the road? 😀
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😀 Why no, Steve, why did he?
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Maybe there was a tasty fly on the other side. 😀
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I’m sure you’re right. Also there was a bit of open water that I suspect he was heading for. We are blessed with lots of water here but increasingly it is bisected by roads and invaded by phragmites.
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Love the swirl of color in that handsome frog!
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Thanks, Tina. It’s getting harder to come up with something different so that sky reflection was a nice treat.
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Delightful photos Steve. I have never had the chance to ponder the shape of a frog’s iris before, and I must say it was wonderful.
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Thanks, Jet. I am very happy to have been able to share the frog’s eye with you.
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Nice work. Impressive results with that lens.
Hearing lots of frogs on each outing. Finding them – another story.
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Thanks, Wally. With the exception of bull and green frogs, I don’t find other species very easily either.
I think we both like to watch vlogs from the same Canadian photographer?
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Great Frog Closeups Steve!
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Thanks, Reed!
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How do you know it’s a girl-frog?
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That round tympanum behind the eye is the frog’s hearing organ and if larger than the eye indicates male, smaller female.
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Ah, ha! And here I feared I wasn’t going to learn anything today. You probably have mentioned that in the past, and I read right over it. Thanks!
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I have but happy to repeat and even happier that I told you something you didn’t know as you have done for me many times.
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That Tamron lens is excellent – as is your lovely frog portrait. 🙂
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Thanks, Ann. I continue to be surprised and impressed with the images I capture with the combo.
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Really, really cool, Steve, thanks! (I’m glad you mentioned enhance in LR because I haven’t tried it – will play with it now!).
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I’ve found both Enhance and the new masking to be really great assets in processing. Hope you enjoy using them. Thanks, Lynn!
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Now that we can select the sky/subject or invert and we can use brushes so easily I don’t feel so bad that I never mastered PS. 😉 I’ve started to use color grading more, too. Sometimes just a little warmth in the highlights, extra coolness in the shadows, etc., can really improve a photo from a gray day. But I missed enhance. Now I need to play with it to see when it makes sense to use it. Sometimes extra sharpening is NOT a good thing. 😉
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Oversharpening can ruin an image. When I first started with digital I had a pretty heavy hand with it and even now think I occasionally could dial it back a bit. As much as we can now do in Lightroom there are still aspects of Photoshop that LR can’t duplicate so I always end up there before considering a shot finished.
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