Common Frog

Discussion

15 replies

Posted by Robert Lawrence on March 13, 2008 at 6:04 PM

Taken in the garden last summer.
Canon EOS 30D
Sigma 100-300mm
F4.5 @ 1/180
400 asa

Posted by Paul Gibbs on March 13, 2008 at 6:23 PM

Nice shot nothing common about that. I like it, Which 100-300? The f4? Ifso did you use an extension tube?

Posted by Paul Inglis on March 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM

Hi Robert,

Lovely capture! Love the intensity of the subject! It really pops!

Posted by John Robinson on March 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM

Great vibrancy about this shot. Same lens as I have too Great !! Great !!
JohnR

Posted by Mike Smith on March 14, 2008 at 3:03 AM

Sorry I am being pathetically thick here, is it a toad or a frog - the skin looks very warty to me

I know bugger all about amphibians living on top of a railway bank, I get toads, but not frogs in my garden so haven't seen a frog for ohhh 20 years or so!

Nice definition in the subject, but on a critical basis the setting of garden grass is distracting

Posted by PhilH on March 14, 2008 at 4:01 AM

Hi,

Tis definately a Common Frog (Rana temporaria)....

Nicely done

Posted by Paul Thomas on March 14, 2008 at 4:48 AM

Sadly not as common as they used to be

Super image.

Paul

Posted by Robert Lawrence on March 14, 2008 at 4:57 AM

Hello all, thanks for all the comments. Yes it is definitely a common frog and yes they don't seem as common as they once were. However we have a very small stream near us and so far I have found frog, toad and common newt in the garden, so consider myself very fortunate. The lens is indeed the sigma 100-300 f4 (one I rate very highly) and if my memory serves me correctly I used a 12mm extension tube.

Posted by Paul Gibbs on March 14, 2008 at 5:19 AM

Ahh thought as much as i think the 100-300's minimum focus distance is a fair distance.

Posted by Matt Cole on March 14, 2008 at 5:47 AM

a very nice shot, good detail and composition.

Matt

Posted by John Chapman on March 14, 2008 at 6:07 AM

Nice one Robert.

John
Aberdeen

Posted by Helge Sorensen on March 14, 2008 at 7:21 AM

Great low angle, very nice shot!

Posted by Paula Graham on March 14, 2008 at 1:24 PM

I do have a 'thing' about frogs and toads, just love them.
Gorgeous shot , well done.

Posted by Magnus Hird on March 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM

Really like this, especially the detail in the skin texture and eye

Posted by eric weight on March 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM

Great detail. the eye is especially nice, but the grass is maybe a little bit intrusive for me.

eric

Posted by David Taylor on March 14, 2008 at 7:25 PM

With frogs and toads in the vicinity could it be a "Froad" an intergeneric hybrid? If there is such a thing. The skin does look very warty for a frog. Very nice shot.