Common Yellowthroat

[Bill Dix]

Here's a Common Yellowthroat that cooperated briefly, one late afternoon in July. Removed several oof leaves.

D7200, 1.4 TC, ISO 1250, 1/640s @ f.7.1 manual, fill @ -2.0

[dennis greenwood]

Makes for a nice composition Bill

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Bill! I like the way the bird perched on the leaves, pose, exposure, clean BG, low light, composition and the way the perch fills the lower half of the frame.

[Randy Stout]

Bill:

As mentioned by Dennis and Bill, a very effective comp, love the spread leg pose, delicate perch. colors. At certain angles on my monitor, I am seeing some repeating posterization artifacts in the upper right hand corner, extending over towards the birds head.

There appears to be either a sensor spot or cloning defect just to the left of the tip of the highest leaf in the frame.

Very nice.

Cheers

Randy

[Bill Dix]

Now that you mention it, I see them too. The result of trying cloning on a dark background and then converting to jpeg. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Bill, well exposed on this fellow, and love the angled pose. I like the two leaf perch, but wish you hadnt cut off the tip of the RH leaf.

[Geoff Newhouse]

Beautiful image with the nice background, sharp subject and great pose of the bird splitting the perch...

TFS
Geoff

[Karl Egressy]

Great looking perch and pose with the spread legs, Bill.

[Bill Dix]

Hi Bill, well exposed on this fellow, and love the angled pose. I like the two leaf perch, but wish you hadnt cut off the tip of the RH leaf.

Thanks Stu. But I'm not seeing the same thing you are. The tip of the RH leaf is intact on my screen, with room to spare.

[Diane Miller]

Gorgeous -- it must be a small bird -- or big leaves. Cloning on a dark BG is fraught with danger. Make a temporary Levels or Curves above all the other layers and pull the dark end way in to really bring up the dark tones, then clone below that layer. You can see where you're not getting the correct source points. If darks show a lot of posterization, make sure you lighten them as much as you intend to in the raw converter instead of PS, and make sure the PS file is 16 bits. Darks posterize easily because there are fewer levels in the histogram the darker you go.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Simply a beauty, Bill. Like the feet on both leaf stems.




Geoffrey

[Bill Dix]

Thanks everyone.