Fisrt Time Macro Posting - Tree Frog

[CamDiver]

Playing around with my new Tamron 90mm f2.8. hearing a scream from the kitchen my girlfriend pointed to a visitor sitting on the oven. With a little encouragement I moved it to a hanging plant we have, best not to have fried Frog for Sunday dinner, and started snapping away.

First time I have posted on the Macro forum so here goes..........

Cheers,
Mark.

[monty28428]

Nice shot Mark!

[jaharris1001]

great shot Mark,, love the colors in the eyes, and the eyes are sharply focused,, very nice,, I love those little tree frogs ;-)

[CamDiver]

Hey thanks,
This one is my favorite......truly amazing eyes as you point out.

Cheers,
Mark

[jaharris1001]

great shot,, its to bad his hand and foot are not as sharp as the rest of the shot,, great composition/lighting and expression on this one,, very nice work !!

[sebastianr]

Wow, he really looks cool. Very nice shots :)

[CamDiver]

I would have liked to get the whole animal pin sharp too but the Tamron only affords a very shallow DOF. I was using a security flood light (I'm not kidding) as a main light with the on camera flash as a filler. This little guy lives in our plant pot so if you can give me pointers on getting a better DOF I can try again tomorrow. I did try ramping the ISO to 1600 to try shooting at f11 through to f22 but still the same shallow DOF. I also tried A-DEP setting on the control dial but again I think its just down to that lens. I could be wrong, I am very new to this.

Cheers,
Mark.

[LordV]

Wonderful captures :) -love the eyes on these little fellahs.
Brian V.

[alliec]

Lovley shots. Look forward to more of this cute little fellow.

[skylab]

Very nice shots. Agree the eyes are super.

[andrew748]

very cool

[drkstang00]

Nice! The eye looks so cool! :)

[coralnutz]

Love that first shot. The eye is really sharp and cool looking. Thanks for sharing.

[Photogirl2007]

Great capture. I love the camoflage stripes. LOL!!

[jaharris1001]

I would have liked to get the whole animal pin sharp too but the Tamron only affords a very shallow DOF. I was using a security flood light (I'm not kidding) as a main light with the on camera flash as a filler. This little guy lives in our plant pot so if you can give me pointers on getting a better DOF I can try again tomorrow. I did try ramping the ISO to 1600 to try shooting at f11 through to f22 but still the same shallow DOF. I also tried A-DEP setting on the control dial but again I think its just down to that lens. I could be wrong, I am very new to this.

Cheers,
Mark.
I think youre right Mark,,, if you went through your F stops from f11 to f22, youre correct,,thats usualy the "sweet spot" on that lens,,,, what where your settings on those shots ? I might suggest a small crop on that photo, take it up to the edge on the OOF plant on the right,,

[Mike4BekA]

those eyes certainly are piercing and you captured them well!

[TheFishGuy]

Awesome shots!
Chris

[CamDiver]

Thanks for the encouraging feedback.

Settings: Image 1 - Tamron 90mm f2.8 @ 90mm - f8 for 1/8th of a second @ ISO200

Image 2 - Canon 18-55mm f3.5 - 5.6 @ 55mm - f8 for 1/15th of a second @ ISO200

PP with Photoshop CS

Cheers,
Mark