Sometimes when photographing a setup with audio help by the edge of a forest the subject will come down bit by bit from the trees before hopping onto the setup perch. For that reason, other than it was in the shade, I setup just outside this particular branch in the hopes that it would use it as one last "springboard"...I felt it had a nice "forest feel" to it and with the framing by the maple leaves on each side also gave it that Canadian "feel" that we up here associate with them (sorry Toronto fans...this is not to be confused with Maple Leafs!!).
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, handheld from backseat of car out through open hatchback, small crop for comp, some ugly oof BG branches along the top removed via content aware, clone, and patch tools; eye work, NR to the BG.
What a nice image, Daniel.
I love the sweet, inquisitive pose and how the line of the birds' body is similar to the sweep of the branch on the left.
Excellent PP work. Reds look good and look better than the previous post.
Colors of green and red really pop and catch the eye of the viewer.
I could see a version with even more of a panorama to include the leaf on the left.
I would clone out the little 2 bits of leaves on the upper RHS,
Gail
Beautiful image, Daniel. The green BG works very well with this beauty. Love the head tilt and you managed to get a perfect natural fill light. Well done. I'm of course curious if you did any work on the reds.
Hi Daniel,
Great image! I can't say that I am not envious of your situation being able to photograph this beautiful bird. However, it is somehow gratifying to know that there are others that must go to the same lengths as me to get tanager images. It is just as challenging out here in B.C. to get good shots of western tanagers and it sounds like they behave in a similar manner. You will find it easier as you get to know their behavior better. The western tanagers aren't as responsive to the audio as they were earlier in the spring. They must now turn their efforts to feeding the female while she is on the eggs. Later they will be out and about as a pair collecting insects for the young and there will be more opportunities for good images. Also, when the young start branching in mid June they will come to the same branch over and over to feed them. This also provides a better chance for good images.
Hope some of this information is able to help although I think your tanager shots are pretty sweet already.
Hope you are having a great day, I am enjoying my BPN Avian Sunday morning with a nice cup of Nicaraguan black coffee
So many lovely images to look at this morning, a lot of tips from the members as I read the comments here and there, so much to take in! Certainly the variety in this thread is amazing and I just love to see so many species of birds I did not know existed.
This image is but one example and I am fascinated with this little "ball of fire", as well as your skill in capturing it in all its beauty - so well exposed and so sharp ( I am struggling to find a better word instead of "sharp", how about "so-well-defined-and-so-luminous-in-the-loveliest-way"). I absolutely love this, and especially the lovely soft green BG and its leaves - some more prominent than the others and softly framing the subject in...
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