Blue-winged Warbler

[Henry Domke]

I accidentally overexposed this picture by almost 2-f/stops. I'm sure glad I was shooting RAW and not JPG. Reducing the exposure in Lightroom almost fixed it. It did take a little local correction work to fix some over-saturated yellows. Can you see any remaining problems? Did I go too far in reducing the yellow saturation?


This is a common warbler in shrubby forest openings here at the PGT. I found this bird near our family cemetery on the eastern edge of the property. It was drizzling when I took this picture but the bird continued to sing.

All comments and suggestions are welcome!

Canon 1D4 600mm+1.4X TC f/9 1/250th sec ISO 1,600 Tripod used
Processed with Lightrooom 5 and Photoshop CC

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot Henry, the colours look good though on the neck still a little bright perhaps - maybe a tad of linear burn or luminance adjustment at the raw stage??

[John Robinson]

Henry. Looks a tiny bit bright on the throat as Jon pointed out but I don;t know what these are like in real life . There seems to be some halo around the bill but it maybe the bill colour. The oof branch on the left looks a bit funny - can't explain why. Gand looking little chap though.
John

[Bill Dix]

Looks good to me, except for the throat as mentioned, and that's not bad. Too bad the leaf obscures the tail, but no deal breaker. Great singing-in-the-rain pose -- I can almost hear his Bee-Buzz. These are beautiful little warblers. We have a few breeding pairs within a half-hour of me in the summer.

[Raybel Robles]

Greta image. I agree with Johnny, the left OOF branch looks strange. Maybe a clone work will do the trick.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice clean shot, great singing pose.

[keith mitchell]

Minor nits already covered on this outstanding image.

Keith.

[Holger Leyrer]

nice image Henry, like the nice perch ,good detail and BG. The singing pose is great.

[christopher galeski]

agree with comments above,but stil think it is nice,the pose is magic.