Magee Marsh, Ohio. The prothonotary warblers here seem to relish the paparazzi, and preen and perform at close range, frustrating the long lenses. Having seen this previously, I packed a 200mm, knowing that unlike other warblers, this one would give me the time to switch lenses. T2i, 200mm, f/2.8, 1/1600s, two out of focus leaves removed.
Beautiful image Ron.
Very nice pose, HA, colors and tack sharp head.
You could have used f6.3 or above in order to avoid OOF back and wings of the warbler.
I would add more space at bottom and LHS and crop some on top.
Thanks Karl and Satish. I am an admirer of both your work. Thanks for the suggestions for improvement of composition and I do wish I had thought to go with more DOF, Satish, I had the light (ISO 400, which I neglected to mention).
Beautiful warbler and nice sharpness and exposure. Good advice above re. comp and DOF. These warblers are so jumpy, so I think you made a good call on the SS. What was your ISO?
I see a green fringe along parts of the tail, wings and a bit of the perch. Not sure if this is some chromatic aberration or an artifact of post processing.
Nice image and keep them coming Ron.
Thanks Sidharth. ISO 400, so plenty of light. The green fringe in places likely is coming from out-of-focus leaves. There were some quite distant leaves in the background, some of which were largely burned out by the exposure and some by me in post. I didn't take a lot of care in cleanup, so the green close to foreground objects are probably due to my cursory burning.
Prothonotary warbler
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