Posted by Toni Lankerd on July 29, 2008 at 9:59 AM
The last few nights I've been having some tiny visitors on my patio, much to my surprise! I have no clue as to why the Grey Tree Frogs (Hyla versicolor) are showing up now, after I have lived in the same place for the last 4 years and have never seen them before. These little guys are about one inch long and from doing some searching, found they can be either grey, green or brown.
Pentax K10D, Sigma 105mm macro, f5.6, 1/125, iso 200, on camera flash
Posted by wally emmert on July 29, 2008 at 3:43 PM
Nice shot toni,,, there kind of noisy too!
Posted by Jack Graham on July 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Toni---- do I smell a 200Macro in your future?
JG
Posted by Toni Lankerd on July 31, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Jack...Nah...I'm pretty happy with the 105mm for now!
Wally...yes, I hear them a lot in the spring a couple blocks away in a swampy area. Whenever I drive through there in the evening, I roll down my windows for stereo effect with the frogs being on both sides of the road!
Way to use the narrow DOF to your advantage, Toni. Is that an artificial light source (I gather it is) illuminating the frog?
Posted by Toni Lankerd on August 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Thanks, Kerry....yes, I had to use the on-camera flash for this. It was too dark to do it any other way and my TTL isn't working with my camera. The nice thing is that if I use Program mode when using the on-camera flash, it always puts out just the right amount of light.
Posted by Paul DeCesare on August 4, 2008 at 9:09 AM
I think we're all still scratching our heads in amazement that you hit the focus so dead-on in such a dark situation, even with AF. Great capture!
Posted by Toni Lankerd on August 4, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Paul..the camera uses a "night sensor", if you will, to focus on objects on the dark, and there was a little bit of light falling onto the patio from inside. But...there was still some hit and miss..not all of the images I took hit the mark. There were quite a few I have to toss due to the back of the frog being more in focus than the eyes. I can live with just a couple images out of the batch!
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7 repliesPentax K10D, Sigma 105mm macro, f5.6, 1/125, iso 200, on camera flash
JG
Wally...yes, I hear them a lot in the spring a couple blocks away in a swampy area. Whenever I drive through there in the evening, I roll down my windows for stereo effect with the frogs being on both sides of the road!