little peeper party....

[peeperita]

i found my peeper as i chopped on the bananas....i made several versions of an edit and this one suited me best....



i bracketed like a mad woman....both for exposure and depth of field....so, i'd love to hear what you guys have to say about different approaches or what tweaking you'd like done with this one.....

plus, since i have virtually the same shot 10 different exposures and such, does that make this a good candidate for the HDR effect i have been seeing so much of?......and if so, what tutorials do you suggest?......

thanks

peeper

[mdwsta4]

i think it's a fantastic shot as is. great lines, colors, and DOF

[pkd14u]

I love it just the way it is.

I showed it to my daughter and told her I love peepers. She said, "it's not a peeper though." She says peepers are dark with an X on their back. She learned this when she went to an environmental science school for 6th grade.

I think you have some sort of a tree frog there. Cute!

Oh and there is a tutorial here for High Dynamic Range editing. It is in the blog. You can probably find it by searching for it.

pkd14u

[Drax]

Lovely! It's just so a nice shot. Can i make it my wallpaper on my PC?
I think you can try the HDR. But it's better if you have the SAME shot with three different exposures.
I am curious to see what with come out of you HDR Experiences. Viel Spaß!!!

P.S.: Here is a link to HDR software. May be you will want to give it a try. That's what i'm using myself.
http://www.hdrsoft.com/download.html

[Todd]

Sweet shot peeper helps I love frogs too!!!!

[phlyersphan]

I love it!!! So cute how his little eyes are half closed

I haven't tried anything with HDR yet, so I have no advice there, but this is a gorgeous shot!

[baseballboy828]

I wouldn't bother with HDR. You may like the result, but the natural vignetting in the corners gives this image power. HDR will remove that.

[clockdoc]

Very nice work here. I agree with baseball in that this shot really would not be improved by applying the HDR technique. HDR works best when you are trying to squeeze every last bit of toal range (that is extreme shadow and highlight detail) our of a scene. Hence the dramatic exposure brackets. Granted you may end up with some unusual colorization in the end but I think what you have presented here is "blue ribbon" quality as it is.

[peeperita]

thank you all for the encouraging words and the link to a tutorial....

i mispoke when i used the word "virtually"...they are the same shot from the same position.....all bracketed.....i have really been wanting to try my hand at HDR....the whole idea of tweaking a shot where everything is exposed intrigues me......i looked and saw that my cs2 has hdr capabilities....and even started the stack with the merge to hdr, but, i am lost as to what first steps to take.....do you work on them the same way that you do a traditional edit?....

peeper

[KagoGrl]

I know nothing about HDR but I can say that I love this shot! I love all the different greens and the composition. I wouldn't change a thing! Very nicely captured - he cooperated well!!