I thought the previous pose was cuter, but I like this profile view with the complete tail too. At 4 inches from bill tip to tail tip, this is one tiny bird (in fact, North America's smallest songbird!). Here I used pishing...not to attract it closer as their were a dozen or so in this spruce tree and couldn't care less about my presence, but to stop it in its' tracks. This gave me time to fire off four frames. Two bad HAs looking away, this one, and yet another bare perch.
canon 7D +100-400L @330mm, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/2000s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light (ever changing sun and cloud!!), handheld, just about FF.
I really like this. Great natural perch and pretty clean BG.
I like seeing the tail and even though I wished I could see the tail in your previous post I think I like the previous post better!!
Excellent IQ as well,
Gail
I really like this Daniel and from your focal length you must have virtually been on top of it. Have you developed some sort of cloaking device or something. If so then let me know how
Another very nice image of this species, with less personality perhaps than the previous, but a more pleasing
overall view of the bird for sure. I like how the darker background creates nice subject isolation around the
crucial head area of the bird. I also like how dark the background is, without being blocked up. I see you were
not taking any chances with shutter speed...great thinking. I have many blurry images of this species :)
Daniel, we have the similar goldcrest over here in Eurasia, and I well know how tough these guys can be to shoot. If you can freeze a kinglet for even three seconds, consider yourself lucky. You did well to get him into the open and to stop awhile, and you had the light behind you. He's not looking at you, but if he were, then maybe you wouldn't have captured the crown so well. Very nice work.
Amazing to get so close to this flighty little creature, and to get him to slow down for an instant. Sharp, and nice to see his golden crown so clearly. HA doesn't bother me, but then I like profile shots.
Nice profile of this little guy. I like that the birds head is in the darker BG, the crown pops nicely against it. Perfect techs and nice and sharp. Wish we had more songbirds here in the So. Cal. desert. Great Job.
Hi Dan, both images have their own appeal, but I prefer this one due to the fact that we can a full profile of the entire body. I like how we can see the various yellows and browns on him, and 4 inches is pretty small. He does stand out fromthe surrounding BG.
Great image; might not be as cute, but I prefer this one. You got really close to this small bird for sure. Love the detail, the perfect exposure, the eye level standpoint and the pine "floor". Super.
I've seen these guys ... ONCE and for a brief second. Too fast to get a shot so definately on my list of wants. The perch is great and you got a great look of the golden crown. Very nice
Lovely image of I presume a hard bird to get in the open if they are anything like our goldcrests. shame about the head angle but I have been trying for several years and have got no where near anything like this yet. Well done and good use of "pishing" to stop him .
Golden-crowned Kinglet.
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