Chestnut-sided Warbler.

[Daniel Cadieux]

From last month, a setup in a new spot I found. It was very productive on that day with multiple specimens of this species and others that cooperated nicely. I used a small height-adjustable music stand (minus the music sheet tray) and a spring clamp to setup this perch, with the speaker on the ground and to front left of the stand's foot.

Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/640s., f/8, ISO 400, small crop to help the comp.

[John Robinson]

Thats a grand looking little fella Daniel.. Love the colour on him and the stem too. Is it really that red ? I would have liked a little bit of something in the back ground but no big deal . Others will love the plainness of it.
Cheers
John

[Randy Stout]

Daniel:

Colorful, well scaled perch. Nice pose, good catchlight. Sharp and well exposed.

Cheers

Randy

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful Daniel, love the bird, love the perch and BG. Your perch appears to be either a Black Raspberry or a Blackberry branch.

[Jonathan Ashton]

That is a beautiful image I like the colours and the composition the pose is super and the little catchlight just finishes it off - great shot.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Very nicely captured little beauty, Daniel. Great you were able to find such a complimentary colored perch. Nice head turn too.




Geoffrey

[keith mitchell]

Daniel tried unsuccessfully to find a nit to pick, ticks all the boxes for me, great looking image.

Cheers Keith.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Incredibly beautiful shot, Dan. Love the light, the gorgeous colors through out and the wonderful warbler. Perfect head turn. perfect techs. I'd crop a bit from the left. Congrats on this beauty.

[Enrique Patino]

Yes, incredible shot for sure. I may be tempted to lighten the mid tones a bit, but that may be personal. Do I see a bit of posterization in the BG or is it me?

[arash_hazeghi]

this is excellent Dan, love the BG, details and colors. the perch is nice and anchors the composition nicely

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice image design. Superb Bg and perch. I like the fact of the head turn back toward you….Super image Daniel!

[Greg Oakley]

Great image Daniel - perfect pose, sweet light and killer perch

[Peter Scholer]

Wonderfully pleasing image. Great rich tones and so naturally sharp with a cracker pose. The perch works so well too.

[MiroslavMaric]

Like the composition, well balanced position of the bird and perch. Great reach tones and color of the bird. Like the eye contact too. Well done! Cheers! Miro.

[christopher galeski]

nothing else to say ,its all been said,beaytiful image,well done.

[shane shacaluga]

Very nicely done Dan! IQ is excellent and really like the foliage at front of the perch balancing the image

I recently bought a bluetooth speaker to try luring them in. Are you hiding the speaker in any way or is that not needed?

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the look back pose, sharpness, exposure, details, perch and BG. Excellent image Daniel!

[Satish Ranadive]

Daniel Sir,
Very very sweet image of beautiful bird in beautiful lights. Color of the perch is nicely complimenting with his side-color.
Love the look back pose. Rest as usual superb.

Regards,
Satish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks gang!

John, yes that stem really is that red...a beautiful deep "wine" red.

Shane, I do not go out of my way to hide the speaker, but I do tuck it in tall grass or behind a log, for example, if available.

[David Salem]

Very nice frame Daniel. The colors are awesome and the feather detail looks great. I love that little splash of yellow on it's head.. What a unique perch color and that smooth green BG sets it off nicely.