Green Honeycreeper

[Bill Dix]

Juan Carlos' striking image of this species the other day made me realize I had never posted this one from Panama last year. It also made me wonder about the color. I had thought mine was accurate, but it looks noticeably more blue than his, so I may have a bluish cast. Perhaps Juan Carlos, or someone else familiar with the species, might offer their opinion.

D7000, 8-0f400VR @ 370mm, ISO 2000, 1/400s @ f/7.1 manual.

[Karl Egressy]

Perfect pos with the right amount of head turn. IQ is excellent. Background is nice and very smooth. Great work Bill, I'm glad that you found this image.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Bill,

Glad you went back to find this one. Can't comment on the color, but the rest (details, pose, perch, background etc) all look great to me.

Miguel

[dankearl]

Beautiful bird Bill, and super IQ as usual.
If you have room in front, I would move it to the left a bit.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Can't help with the color , but I think the image is stunning. Perhaps just a slight bit off the left side???

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image, Bill Sir.
Beautiful colors with very nice details.Love the pose with nice HA, yellow beak and great BG. TFS.

Regards,
Satish.

[arash_hazeghi]

very cool! I like the pose and details, nice BG too

[Steve Zamek]

Beautiful image Bill. The color of this bird does, indeed, look considerably more blue than what I've seen in Costa Rica.

[Greg Basco]

Hi, Bill. Nice exposure, and I like the framing on this one. This guy does look a bit blue. I would warm up the blue/green a bit on the bird but not too much. They really should be called turquoise/green honeycreeper as they are not straight green in my experience.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hello Bill, back home after some guiding!
Pretty male, nice perch and pose. I like the fact that you were able to get some details on the dark hood/mask. I agree with you that this image could use a tad of colour warming since it looks a bit cool for me. I believe their colour is not green as is the female, but more turquoise. Also, depending on how much light hits the feathers, these can look bluish and sometimes greenish.

[Bill Dix]

Thank you Greg, Juan Carlos, and everyone else. Here's a repost with a Warming Filter at 25% opacity, plus just a little further tweak in Color Balance. That's more intervention than I thought it would take, but he still looks pretty blue (indicating, I guess, just how far into the blue spectrum the OP was). Does this look closer to reality to your tropically experienced eyes? Thanks for the help.

[Greg Basco]

Bill, IMO, the blue could still go just a bit greener as it looks on my calibrated monitor. As Juan Carlos said, though, there is some variation in these guys.

Cheers,
Greg