Hey guys, here's a pretty neat critter that I found in the forest under a fallen log. A Blue-spotted Salamander, a common but not often seen amphibian of the woods (usually near vernal pools). Salamanders are always an exciting find for me, and this was actually my first "Blue-spotted" one!
Photographed with a macro lens but thought it more of a "wildlife" image.
Canon 7D + 100mm f/2.8 macro, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/160s., f/11, ISO 800, flash @ -2/3 FEC, handheld, FF, a bit of glare reduced via spot removal tool, and some spots of the ground toned down via burn tool. NR to BG. I do see some banding in the BG after resizing...just pretend it ain't there