Shining Honeycreeper (Costa Rica)

[Glenn Bartley]

I was reprocessing a few from Costa Rica a few years back and came across this one. I hope you enjoy it :)

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6617/shininghoneycreeperreedqr1.jpg

Camera Model: Canon EOS 10D
Shutter speed: 1/60 sec
Aperture: 8
Flash: On @ - 1 1/3
ISO: 400
Focal length: 300mm 2.8 + 2x

[Doug Brown]

Very pretty Glenn! I like it as presented, but I could also see it as a horizontal crop. I'm interested to see how others weigh in on this.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose, details and eye contact. The crop works for me.

[Gyorgy Szimuly]

Very nice image Glenn. Processing looks fine. What was the main difference in the old processed file? How do you feel?
Not sure if vertical orientation is fine for this pose.

Szimi

[Johnny Bravo]

Superb shot Glen and a fabulous bird. Your website, btw, drove me off on my first trip to CR so I have to thank you for that. Now your shining honeycreeper is going to send me back!!!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice image Glen.
Really nice BG and the pose, very good too. As mentioned above, the horizontal crop could work in this one too.

[Greg Basco]

Glenn, very nice. I like the vertical comp for this one, and I love the flowers at the top. As you know, the shining honeycreeper is much more difficult to get a good look at than the green and red-legged, so this is a special shot.

OK, let's guess -- the Stachytarpheta hedge behind the feeders at Naturalista?

Cheers,
Greg