Green Jay

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Setup from February this year.
Canon 1D4, 700mm
1/500, f8, iso 800, flash
Pop-up blind

All comments appreciated
Thanks.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent light, pose and details Sid

[gail bisson]

Great BG and perch and HA. The moss and lichen really add interest.
I am wondering why you used flash? Not challenging your decision just trying to learn when to use flash ( which I never do cause I don't know how)
Gail

[Richard Flack]

Awesome photo. Beautiful bird, perch and BG. TFS

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Killer bird, lovely light and pose.

[Grace Scalzo]

Wonderful pose, fine details. I like your compostion with the bird rather high in the frame.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent colors, IQ, perch & BG. TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Sid, love the light, which in turn has shown up the colours of the Jay nicely. Great choice of perch, as I do like the scattered lichen. Cant complain about the BG either. Great work.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

I am wondering why you used flash? Not challenging your decision just trying to learn when to use flash ( which I never do cause I don't know how)
Gail

Gail,
In this setup, the light wasn't really that great and I was seeing shadows. I used flash with BB to fill and help with the shadows.

Flash can be fun to experiment with.

In the image below, I wanted to retain the deep bg color. I underexposed ambient just a tad and lit the bird with flash instead.
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/86771-Painted-Bunting-(adult-male)?highlight=


Or a touch of fill flash to make the bird pop against the bg:
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/95501-Look-what-I-found-(2)?highlight=
http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/showthread.php/100402-Least-Sandpiper-in-last-light?highlight=


A common situation where a flash comes in handy is if your bg is brighter than the bird, and would be blown out/too bright if you exposed correctly for the bird.
A flash allows me to control how much light I want on the subject v/s the bg.

I only ever use it as fill, never as a main source of light (I worry about how that would affect a subject, especially one with sensitive eyes.)

I'm definitely no flash expert - now you know everything about it that I do.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful and colorful image.

[Satish Ranadive]

Sidharth,
Excellent image. Very nice pose,beautiful colors, nice details, interesting perch, lights and composition.
Love the frame.

Regards.
Satish.

[mohammad reza shahab]

excellent light, pose,perch and good details.