Although the perch is a little massive for this tiny fellow, I love the repeating lines in it, which mimic the swoop of the tail. I do appreciate that the long tail really restricts your cropping options. If you have it , a sliver more canvas on the left.
The colors in perch/bird and background play very well together.
The head is not quite razor sharp on my monitor. Perhaps a little motion blur at this shutter speed.
This bird kept going back to this perch and I liked the sweeping lines of the tail and the leaf. So I set -up to get a decent background and waited for him to return.
Perhaps I could add canvas, but otherwise do not have any in the original.
The head shows no motion blur and is sharp at 100% in the raw. Perhaps it is rather my sharpening, as I have not processed for bpn for a while and didn't want to over do it :)
Birds with long tails are very hard to compose well in the frame, but this has worked well with the leaf mirroring the lines of the bird, head angle to the camera is very good too, a striking looking bird Ben, colors of both birds and leaf are excellent with the light and sheen controlled nicely
Long-tailed sylph, Ecuador
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