The Sentinel Amidst the Salvinia

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

A frog peers above the surface of a pond covered by Salvinia natans plants. This was shot in my garden near Karnala bird sanctuary.

Canon 500D, 100mm Macro USM
SS 1/50
Av 4.0
ISO 800
Full frame at 1:1
Wondering whether there is a bit of camera shake here (?)
I had used a very narrow aperture because I only wanted the eye in focus. Reviewing the image now, I feel a little more DoF would have done good. Let me know your view.

Thanks, C&C welcome.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely composition. I am fine with the present DOF, as that keeps focus on the eye. The half dipped leaves look nice. Nicely captured. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Shutter speed was pretty low. Some more sharpness would have been better. Any chance of going down to get a further lower angle? Slightly more depth of field would have been even better.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Sabyasachi,
This was the lowest I could go. Almost at the water level. In fact my fingers on the underside of the lens were already wet . I will check if I have any higher DoF shots, though I doubt it.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice. even i feel slightly more dof wud been good here.

TFS
Roopak

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image.I have a very interesting image of a similar frog found in the amazonian jungles which I managed to click in a conservation center in North America, will post it in FB abhishek. Am sure you'll like to see the similarity between the two.