Five Photos

Hi,

Here are some Green Tree Frogs for you to critique. The first one, you have seen before, and the second one is an "updated" version of that one.

The last three are new, taken today. Please, be honest.

1 (Original edit - oxymoron?)

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...jpg_edit-1.jpg

2 (Updated)

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...g_editjpg2.jpg

3

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...13jpg_edit.jpg

4

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...46jpg_edit.jpg

5

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...34jpg_edit.jpg

Later, Matt

My god... those pictures are freakin awesome! The first picture was good then the rest of the pictures are so impressive that you can see the textures of that frog skin. Amazing... :gj:

Got any advice for making them better? I'm hoping to win a Texas wildlife contest - luckily I'm still in the 13-17 year old range. :rofl:

Later, Matt

crop #4 so the frog is in a similar position in the photo as photo #2.

or crop number much tighter and maybe sharpen it up a bit....

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Originally Posted by redpython

crop #4 so the frog is in a similar position in the photo as photo #2.

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I actually like it like that because of the flowers, but I'll give it a shot.

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Originally Posted by redpython

or crop number much tighter and maybe sharpen it up a bit....

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Crop number...?

Later, Matt

i meant crop number 2 tighter....

I actually like the 5th one. LOL

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

I actually like the 5th one. LOL

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Got any suggestions?

Later, Matt

I honestly have no suggestions, i love those pictures! I think they are better when they arent all fancied up...animals are beautiful as is, and a little sharpening goes a long way :) Great job, i hope you win!

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Originally Posted by Creeptastic

I honestly have no suggestions, i love those pictures! I think they are better when they arent all fancied up...animals are beautiful as is, and a little sharpening goes a long way :) Great job, i hope you win!

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These are fancied up.

Later, Matt

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Originally Posted by DutchHerp

Got any suggestions?

Later, Matt

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Maybe lighten around the eye area, to draw in more focus there.

Thats really all i got for you, not much else I can suggest LOL

I think they all look great

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Originally Posted by Denial

I think they all look great

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I like #5, my only suggestion would be to make it a tad bit smaller, and put a border on it.

Slick stuff! I particularly like #5. They all leap out of the monitor.

I have no idea of your skills or knowledge, so I apologize if you already know these things or don't like them.

Consider placing the most interesting portions of the pictures on or along some lines, the first being the rule of thirds: http://digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds

Then there is a more advanced, and highly controversial (just search some forums), the diagonal rule: http://www.picture-thoughts.com/phot...osition/angle/

Where "most interesting" in this case, in my opinion is the eyeballs. So you'd place one right on one of these lines, or best of all, where two of them intersect. In particular, the diagonal rule is EXTREMELY picky. If you perfectly line up an object perfectly on its center right on a line or intersection, you may find the image gains this extra punch to it. It's difficult to explain. But if it's off by just a few pixels, that feeling is gone.

Definitely some things to check out. Some image editing software can overlay grids, unfortunately a diagonal grid is rather rare.

Not bad Kid, not bad at all.