Red-eyed Vireo

[Bill Dix]

Enough warblers for now. Here's another nemesis bird, often heard but seldom seen (for me at least). This one showed up while I was hoping for warblers last month, and gave me two poses in different locations about 10 seconds apart. One had a nice bg but had a few too many difficult branches across the body; the other was almost clear but with a lousy bg. This combines the two. I thought about evicting the twig on the right, but decided it helped counterbalance the image. What do you think?

D7000, 700mm, ISO 1250, 1/1600s @ f/7.1 manual.

[Arthur Morris]

Well done in relatively harsh direct overhead lighting. You might wish to evict the large twig that goes through the tail....

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Nicely captured and harshness of light handled well, Bill. Yes the light is harsh, but its direction helps enhance and define the feathers. Like the shadow detail, and the BG gives a spotlight quality. I was going to suggest toning down the twig on right, but then you would have to tone the other twigs on left to match. I would remove it and don't feel it would look unbalanced. Also I might crop in a bit from left and a little from right taking him a bit more off center. Still like as posted.



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Geoffrey

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nice one Bill, I agree with Artie on the light and twig.

[Binu John]

Excellent shot, Bill! Very nice exposure and feather details! Agree with the suggestion to clone out that twig! TFS

[Bill Dix]

Thanks everyone. I guess it's unanimous. Here's a repost without the twig, and a bit of crop off the right.

[Binu John]

The RP is perfect IMO! Excellent PP work!

[christopher galeski]

loverly capture,sharp with nice detail,nice BG and pose,repost is the one.

[Satish Ranadive]

Very very sweet image, Bill Sir.
Wonderful color pallet. Love the way greens in the BG and green colors leave nicely complimenting with wing colors.
Very nice pose, sharp details and composition. Re post is superb.

Regards,
Satish.

[Holger Leyrer]

Very nice Bill. I like the pose, colors and details. The eye is great. I prefer the repost.

[Bill Dix]

Thank you all.

[Arthur Morris]

The repost rocks as it looks so much cleaner. But only 1000%

[Bill Dix]

The repost rocks as it looks so much cleaner. But only 1000%

Aw shucks. I was going for 10,000. Thanks Artie.