Yellow Warbler Singing

[Raymond Barlow]

Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/250s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso200
hand held from F150, natural light, 75% of FF

A mit-full of warblers are passing through a local park, and some frustating shooting was enjoyed!! (I think)

thanks for looking!

Thanks for the comments, I opened this image in PS, made it look dark with my Nvidia controls, then redited.



this should be better at least!! I find it difficult to get the yellow looking right against that green bg.

Thanks Doug!

[Steve Maxson]

A beautiful sharp image, Raymond. The singing is a big plus. Love the green background. I think the image could go brighter. You might try brightening the catchlight a bit.

[Glenda Simmons]

A very colorful little songbird. You captured a nice pose with him singing. I like his perch as well.

[Doug Brown]

Nice job Raymond. Would definitely go a little brighter on the bird. Here's a repost with a couple of other changes. How do you like it?

[John Chardine]

I like the repost Raymond. You have captured the action well and have adequate DoF to cover the whole bird. The colours are saturated but not overly-so. We are still waiting for the influx of warblers in New Brunswick.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Lovely image and I particularly like the singing pose you captured here. Excellent detail and I too like the repost.

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks everyone, on my monitor, the repost shows the yellow washed out, and the detail lost., and I am sure the problem is my monitor. Thanks for the help!

[Mike Lentz]

Very nice image and a good re-post.

[Blake Shadle]

Well done, Ray! I really like the composition, and background. The pose of your subject is great. I would definitely go brighter on the entire image. The perch looks really dark and I would lighten it as well as your subject.

[Raul Quinones]

Great picture, like the repost. Colors, pose and sharpness are great.

[Blake Shadle]

Excellent repost, Ray! I was actually getting ready to post something that looked very, very similar!

[Raymond Barlow]

Excellent repost, Ray! I was actually getting ready to post something that looked very, very similar!

thanks Blake., I did have a hard time with this one, is seemed no matter what I did, I couldn't get the bird to look as yellow as it is., I think the bg is too bright now, but my very limited PS skills won't allow me to improve the image. Something about yellow on green.

[Freddy Franzella]

Superb image Ray! and great background! well done!

[Blake Shadle]

thanks Blake., I did have a hard time with this one, is seemed no matter what I did, I couldn't get the bird to look as yellow as it is., I think the bg is too bright now, but my very limited PS skills won't allow me to improve the image. Something about yellow on green.

Yellow is one of the most difficult colors to render properly. Green can hold a lot of yellow, so adjusting the yellow may also adjust the look of the green background. Best thing to do is create multiple selective color adjustment layers and mask one to your subject and one to the background. Do your best to make it look like what you saw in the field, and that's really all we can do :)

[Raymond Barlow]

Yellow is one of the most difficult colors to render properly. Green can hold a lot of yellow, so adjusting the yellow may also adjust the look of the green background. Best thing to do is create multiple selective color adjustment layers and mask one to your subject and one to the background. Do your best to make it look like what you saw in the field, and that's really all we can do :)

I agree 100%., I will need to study some tutorials and learn some ps skills indeed.

[Doug Brown]

Like your repost better than mine Raymond! Nicely done.