Black-throated Green Warbler feeding baby

[Matthew Studebaker]

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Hancock County, Maine | July | Canon 50D | Canon 600mm f4 IS | ISO 200 1/500 f5.6

I posted another from this series a little while ago but I can't resist posting another. Whitnessing the feeding was certainly one of the highlights of my spring shooting season. I could have used a touch more DOF here. I did try a new sharpening thechnique and will be curious to hear what you guys think.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Matthew, there is only a 'no hotlinks' button instead of an image. You can host the image on the BPN server by going to 'edit', 'go advanced' scroll down and click on 'manage attachments' where you can upload.

[Matthew Studebaker]

There we go. fixed it. Thanks Axel.

[Keith Bauer]

Wonderful interaction captured in this image. I like the mother's angle. Do you have more with the mother actually feeding the baby? Nice image.

[Arthur Morris]

Timing, SH, the bug, the EXP, and the adult are all perfect. I wish only that the head of the baby were turned a bit more towards us.

[Arthur Morris]

ps: Thanks for your membership support. It is greatly appreciated.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Great moment captured. Love the perch and the worm. Great looking species.

[Dan Brown]

Nice shot Matthew! Could this chick be a cowbird? It seems a bit big.

[Stu Bowie]

Super interaction, and I like the anticipation of the chick with the open beak. Well captured.

[Melvin Grey]

Very nicely captured behavioural image, well composed against a nice un-obtrusive BG. The young bird looks incapable of sustained flight so why was it out of the nest? If as Dan suggested it might be a parasitic species like our European Cuckoo, these often leave the host nest before being able to fly, generally because they have outgrown it!
Would others please mind commenting on this.

[Matthew Studebaker]

Good question Melvin. He could actually do very very short flights but he was out of the nest because HE has parasites. There were worms crawling out of both this young Black-throated Green Warbler chick and its four siblings.

[Mike Lentz]

I remember the first image in this series, awesome!
Did you sharpen in LAB mode?

[Matthew Studebaker]

Hi Mike - instead of running a sharpen filter on this shot, when I resized the image in photoshop I simply chose the "nearest neighbor" for hard edges algorythm in photoshop instead of the default "bicubic" mode. Just something I'm playing around with. The advatage is that there is no halo created when using this method, and it preserves fine detail well, but it does increase the noise in the background.