Prothonotary Warbler

[Tim Vidrine]

Captured this image in the Atchafalaya NWR. I was able to get him to the edge of the woods by using an iPod. There were plenty of birds singing, so I was a little surprised he responded. This is one of only 4 keeper images I was able to get. They are quick for low light conditions.

04/22/2008 8:41am
Overcast
Canon 40D
Canon 500mm +1.4x
1/100s f/5.6 iso500
AV mode
Eval
Flash @ -3

[Gus Cobos]

Hi Tim,
Nice looking image...:) would like to see the bird a bit more off centered and he is a bit too saturated on the yellows...:D

[Tim Vidrine]

Gus, thanks for viewing and commenting. I have a problem with over saturating yellows and reds. I desaturated the yellows, but looks like it's not enough. Is there a quantitative way of determining over saturation? I desaturated the yellows until I thought all detail was available, but it looked pretty dull so I added some back. Any help in this area is appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

[Glenn Bartley]

A very fine image of this species. Those yellows are tough....especially with such a dark BG. These dont look too bad to me but may still be a bit hot.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

nice BG & a pretty bird. agree that the saturation has washed off some details in the head...

[Tim Vidrine]

Thanks guys. I'm going to try my hand at saturation masks to see if I can improve on my color saturations. This is not the first image where it was a problem.

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Tim The yellows are adjusted basically to taste On this on I would go just a bit more Might want to keep around an image for reference Maybe from a book?

Sweet pose and bg Glad he responded !!!!

[Tim Vidrine]

Thanks Al. I've made some adjustments using saturation masks and like the image more. The yellows on the head are more saturated then the rest and doing a global hue/saturation adjustment got me. Applying the hue/saturation adjustment with a saturation masks seemed to have remedied the situation.

[Harold Davis]

hi tim, beautiful bird, great perch and bg. love it.