My friend found an unusual frog - Page 2

**lady_bug87** · 06-29-13, 05:10 AM

I've never seen blue mud before... Cool

poison123 · 06-29-13, 08:50 AM

[QUOTE=formica;850752]this is a picture of a frog i took at London Zoo (sorry about the dodgy focus lol); no photoshop involved, just incase no one believes blue frogs exist

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Of course they exist. these are mine http://i1261.photobucket.com/albums/...9/P1020955.jpg

D. azureus are very common in the pet trade.

poison123 · 06-29-13, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by lady_bug87

I've never seen blue mud before... Cool

Haha. Thats exactly what made me think the colors were changed.

Chu'Wuti · 06-29-13, 10:16 AM

Well, I have seen mud that shows hints of blue. Petroleum products from automotive vehicles gets on the streets, into the storm drains, flows off onto nearby ground, and reflects blues and sometimes purples and greens.

As the "mud" in the photo is really pretty gray and only shows hints of blue along with some hints of green that could be algal in origin, I'm not willing to bet that the picture is photoshopped. However, I'm not an expert at detecting photoshopping, either, so maybe someone who is can look at it more closely.

Starbuck · 06-29-13, 10:27 AM

i know blue frogs exist, but in the OPs image, the substrate looks very blue, wheras in Formica's picture, we can see the reds, yellows, and greens in the background.

I know my smartphone has a photo-filter option to emphasize blue/eliminate reds, highlight yellows, black and white, etc. I'm not saying it isn't real, but i would like more pics with a diverse background before I'm convinced.

**Pareeeee** · 06-29-13, 10:33 AM

I asked him and he said that the colours are little off because it's his cell camera, but he assured me it was definitely a blue frog

Chu'Wuti · 06-29-13, 10:41 AM

Starbuck said,

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in the OPs image, the substrate looks very blue, wheras in Formica's picture, we can see the reds, yellows, and greens in the background.

I think some of the coloration may have to do with individual computer monitors. I see GRAY substrate in the OPs image, with only a very few, very slight hints of blue, and I've gone back to look at it very closely. I would not characterize the substrate as "very" blue at all. In Formica's image, I see one faint streak of red, very little yellow, and green moss on the substrate. I'll bet our different monitors are reproducing the colors enough differently to affect our ability to make an accurate assessment of the OPs photo adversely.

**Pareeeee** · 06-29-13, 10:48 AM

ok EVERYONE. Let's print it out and see what colour it actually is!

Everyone use CMYK, 300 dpi.
Set your printer on "Best Photo"

LOL.

**lady_bug87** · 06-29-13, 10:59 AM

I just said I thought the mud was cool.....

smy_749 · 06-29-13, 12:23 PM

My theory is that the frog was slightly blueish (not that intense) and they used that function on phones to make the colors more vibrant. If you google axanthic frog I think theres a few pics of something similar and it makes sense...Axanthic Turns green to blue does it not?

**Pareeeee** · 06-29-13, 12:41 PM

Here's some I found online

Happens in bullfrogs too

moshirimon · 06-30-13, 11:31 AM

Im almost certain the picture is photoshopped. the colors are too even and flat throughout the frog. the eardrums on the ones u just posted are browner and darker than the rest of the frog. Whatever they are they stand out in colour. the first picture though everything is the same colour. Its eyes are also the exact same shade of blue. its just too fake looking to me.

Mark Taylor · 06-30-13, 12:04 PM

I think it's real but then I thought this was real lol.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3297/3...7f033b3e_z.jpg

Amadeus · 06-30-13, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark Taylor

I think it's real but then I thought this was real lol.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3297/3...7f033b3e_z.jpg

I wish that were real....

smy_749 · 06-30-13, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Mark Taylor

I think it's real but then I thought this was real lol.

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3297/3...7f033b3e_z.jpg

Looks real to me. I dont see any signs of photoshop, just a very good sand sculpture :P