Speckled Tanager

[Jim Crosswell]

This was taken at a set-up in Costa Rica. Cloned out dark area in BG above the bird. All C&Cs are appreciated.

Canon 40D
500L F4
1.4 Extender
IS0 400
F/8
1/500s
Tripod

[Herb Houghton]

Beautiful shot Jim. I love the colors on the bird and the sharpness. I may have cropped some more from top and right side if it was mine. TFS

Herb

[Ilija Dukovski]

Fantastic bird, great perch, BG,
agree about the crop. I love the eye contact.
Congrats!

Ilija

[Jim Crosswell]

Fantastic bird, great perch, BG,
agree about the crop. I love the eye contact.
Congrats!

Ilija


Beautiful shot Jim. I love the colors on the bird and the sharpness. I may have cropped some more from top and right side if it was mine. TFS

Herb
How is this crop?

[Glenn Bartley]

Really nice Jim! I absolutely love this species :)

[James Salywoda]

You sure nailed some beautiful birds on your trip and this is another excellent one.

[Don Lacy]

Wonderful bird and capture he just jump right off the screen when i open the thread. While I like the original the tighter crop has even more impact.

[Ben_Sadd]

Taking the eye out of the centre improved an already great image. I love tanagers and this is certainly a great one. Did you also do some work on the left of the perch in the repost? It is different and it looks better.

[Bryan Hix]

Awesome! I love these birds and you did a great job with the colors and exposure.

[Dan Busby]

Jim - what a great shot of an amazing species. I too just spent time in CR and was most surprised by the variety of tanagers such as this one. You did a great job of catching the colors and detail in this species. Also a very nice pose - although a common one with these birds that are always coming to the fruit feeders :bg3: Cropping and composition is always a personal thing, but if it was mine I would try cropping a bit off the bottom. And seeing all of the tail might have been preferable for me. But that is getting a bit picky for a shot of this calibre.

[Pieter de Waal]

Good repost Jim, what amazing colours, well captured and sharp with good eye contact.

[Jim Crosswell]

Taking the eye out of the centre improved an already great image. I love tanagers and this is certainly a great one. Did you also do some work on the left of the perch in the repost? It is different and it looks better.

Ben I touched up the perch in the repost. In the original there was some left over banana that I missed. Thanks for the comment.

[Doug Brown]

Never have seen one of these; where did you find it? Very sharp, nicely exposed, and great eye contact. The repost looks better IMO.

[Nico Steenberg]

Astonishing detail captured. The bg is a killer :eek:. IMG is well exposed with great colours and comp :S3: