Blue frog picture picture of the day
I took this picture of a domestic blue poison dart frog a few years back, and, of course, published it on tsfr immediately thereafter. And that was the last that I thought about it until, earlier this year, the editors of the design magazine “Identity Matters” contacted me and asked if they could use that picture on the cover of the magazine.
It might not pay as well as computer programming, but that’s compensated by it not being computer programming. (Pentax *istDS, Quantaray/Cosina 70-300mm tele-macro, manual focus. If I can find the original photo, I’d be able to tell the exposure and f-stop (I’m guessing 1/250th second @ f5.6 with flash bounced off the wall so I could illuminate the little frog without blinding myself with the glare off the frogtank.) I’d suspect that I “processed” this picture in my normal fashion; saved on the camera as a high-quality jpg, cropped to a more pleasing shape and size, then saved onto the weblog.
(this is probably the incentive I should use to harvest some of my better photos so I can lease them to some micro-stock photo website. Perhaps after I finish redoing the front sidewalk.)
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Terrific pic. Your 2nd career looks good.
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Very cool photo! It’s not just the color, which is bizarre enough. It’s the Embodiment of Evil expression you caught. Which is pretty impressive on a 1.5-cm frog.