Black Throated Green Close Up

[john crookes]

Attachment 11612Went out looking for Warblers this morning on Plum Island in Massachusetts and this guy jumped up in front of me at my minimun focus range got this one off and then tried to back up to get more in frame and off he went but I kind of like the portrait of this one

Nikon D3
400mm 2.8
2x EXT
F5.6
1/1500th
ISO 400
Fill Flash set to TTL FP

Monopod

[Dan Brown]

Wow! this is Cool! It looks a little noisey on my monitor though. Maybe you could run it thru Noise Ninja.

Dan Brown,
Sacramento

[john crookes]

MMMMM it does look noisy here so I ran dfine 2.0 on the bg

D3 should not be noisy though and the original is fine

Oh Well

[Dan Brown]

Much better! there is something about the bill that makes it stand out? I don't know what it is? Oh well, I like it. Dan Brown