-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), October 23, 1998

Answers

Great photo Peter, DOF is great, only suggestion I can offer is that maybe chaging the view point to a higher position to include the whole frog. I like the lines of the leaf.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), October 23, 1998.

Well done, Peter G. The light looks fairly diffuse and the palmetto frond frames the subject nicely. Check your notes and give us the specs;)

-- Alex Aycrigg (grigg80@hotmail.com), October 25, 1998.

Notes? You make me laugh, Alex. Here's my best recollection, so take it for what it's worth. Sigma 180 5.6 macro, Velvia. It was late afternoon, so this guy was in deep shade. I remember stopping way down, so it was probably f22 or 32. Exposure was probably metered with spot on the frog, exposure was manual at > 1 sec. Can't give you specifics without making them up. I don't think I used fill flash on this one, though I did on a couple of other shots of this beast.

-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), October 26, 1998.

I like macros that include some closely associated part of the environment. I wonder if a lower and more frontal perspective would show up the eye better.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), October 26, 1998.