PDM frog 300812 canon7d
Sep, 2012Views
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Location
This was taken at the terrific Horniman Museum in South London. My mum always used to take me there as a kid and I loved the opportunity to go back and photograph it.Time
It was a morning just like any morning, but the artificial lighting of the museum exhibit left no sense of time for those roaming its corridors.Lighting
It was an artificially lit simulated pond environment, and the way the fluorescent rays glistened from the frog's slippery back and moist surroundings caught my eye in a major way.Equipment
I was using a borrowed Canon 7D, shooting handheld on the fly.Inspiration
I've always loved nature documentaries and hugely admired the photography that talented photographers and filmmakers bring back from the far reaches of the earth. But many sequences from nature shows are shot in studios to allow more controlled study and documentation... the Horniman Museum offered me a similar opportunity in this photo and I just had to seize the moment.Editing
What you see is what you get! I usually do some subtle post-processing to emphasise and draw out particularly visuals, such as finding some extra detail around the edges of blown-out highlights, but this little froggy just needed a little cropping.In my camera bag
Usually I shoot with my dad's old Minolta SRT-101, complete with 28mm, 58mm and 135mm lenses (the 58's a beaut), but on this occasion I was dabbling in digital and using my friend's trusty Canon 7D.Feedback
Don't be afraid to create artificial environments to control your subjects... whatever it takes to get the shot do it. Make the most of sources lighting, even letting their positions dictate your framing if you can't move the lights. Move move move, never be rooted to the spot!
