Posted by Andy Elliott on March 26, 2010 at 5:30 PM
Not exactly a 'straight' image... Cloning-out to remove duckweed, burn-in and vignette. Also a little touch-up on the eye reflection to remove the image of my mate alongside me...
E-3, 50-200 @200mm f5.6 ISO 400 1/80s hand-held with IS on
Posted by David Taylor on March 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM
Rather a surreal looking image. Just up my street.
Posted by John Chapman on March 27, 2010 at 4:20 AM
Posted by Andy Elliott on March 27, 2010 at 5:03 AM
Thanks, guys!
Posted by Brett Lewis on March 27, 2010 at 5:41 AM
I find the vignetting a little bit over powering on this one and I think I would have been inclined to move in closer to the subject and therefore use less of it. I think the Mono can work well with these critters and in the context nice work and for thinking outside the box.
Really like this and the vignette and black and white really adds to the image.
Posted by Ben Gardner on March 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM
love this image. The glistening effect almost gives the image texture.
Posted by Andy Elliott on March 27, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Thanks. Here's it in colour (just to muddy the waters - no pun made - further). I like this too, in a different way. It's amazing the variation in colours of the common frog...
Great! Love the mono treatment - common or not its a corker!
Posted by Lewis Thomson on March 27, 2010 at 4:57 PM
Hi Andy,
I really like the mono version, great textures and tones. If I was being picky I would have liked it just a touch to the left so its less central, but no big deal.
Cheers,
Lewis.
Posted by David Taylor on March 27, 2010 at 5:31 PM
Both are excellent, but the colour image is my favourite.
Posted by Andy Elliott on March 27, 2010 at 6:57 PM
I really like the mono version, great textures and tones. If I was being picky I would have liked it just a touch to the left so its less central, but no big deal.
I like it fairly central looking at it as an abstract, rather than a creature 'looking' to the right, but I have to say, with the colour version, it seems to switch in my mind back to being a frog, and to the left is probably better. Funny how the view changes depending on whether it is mono or colour...
Posted by Philip Newman on March 28, 2010 at 5:03 AM
Both are quite excellent, but I think colour version has the edge.
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13 repliesE-3, 50-200 @200mm f5.6 ISO 400 1/80s hand-held with IS on
Brett
Hi Andy,
I really like the mono version, great textures and tones. If I was being picky I would have liked it just a touch to the left so its less central, but no big deal.
Cheers,
Lewis.
I like it fairly central looking at it as an abstract, rather than a creature 'looking' to the right, but I have to say, with the colour version, it seems to switch in my mind back to being a frog, and to the left is probably better. Funny how the view changes depending on whether it is mono or colour...
Phil Newman