Black-throated Green Warbler

[Josh Gahagan]

I've been working mainly on warblers for the past few weeks and thought I would share one I got about a week ago. I used my iPod to call him down to eye level. Thanks for looking.

20D, 400 f5.6, 1.4x TC, 1/250 @ f5.6 (I taped the pins for this one), ISO 800.

[Arthur Morris]

Nice singing pose. Sharp and a nice BKGR, but a bit too centered for my taste. You might want to clean the whtie speck off of the lower mandible. Let's see some more!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great exposure control, soft light, singing pose and details. I would just crop a bit off the right. Keep them coming!

[Maxis Gamez]

This one have a very nice pose with lovely BG and sharpness. I wish the bird was a little more to the right of the frame.

How did you taped the pins?

Thanks for sharing!

[Josh Gahagan]

Thanks for the comments guys. I would also prefer a little less room on the right, but the left and top are from the original and I didn't want to crop it anymore from the lower right because it seemed unbalanced to me with the perch less dominant.

Maxis, I put a piece of tape over the last three pins on the left side of the TC. I usually do not do this because even though I get to shoot at f5.6, I am shooting at a slower shutter speed than if I was shooting wide open at f8 without the pins taped.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

It would be easy to add a bit canvas left and top.

[Maxis Gamez]

Thanks for the comments guys. I would also prefer a little less room on the right, but the left and top are from the original and I didn't want to crop it anymore from the lower right because it seemed unbalanced to me with the perch less dominant.

Maxis, I put a piece of tape over the last three pins on the left side of the TC. I usually do not do this because even though I get to shoot at f5.6, I am shooting at a slower shutter speed than if I was shooting wide open at f8 without the pins taped.

What kind of tape do you use?

Thank you for sharing!

[Mike Milicia]

I put a piece of tape over the last three pins on the left side of the TC. I usually do not do this because even though I get to shoot at f5.6, I am shooting at a slower shutter speed than if I was shooting wide open at f8 without the pins taped.

Ok, I'm a bit confused here. I have never taped pins but I believe all you are doing is effectively "hiding" the presence of the converter from the camera body. In this case, the camera may "say" f/5.6 but since you are in reality
shooting wide open with an effective focal length of 560mm (instead of 400mm), you are really shooting at f/8. The only effect of taping the pins is that the logic in the camera which normally disables autofocus when a converter is present is subverted and the camera continues to try to autofocus. But, with respect to exposure, you really have lost a stop and shooting wide open is now shooting at 560mm at f/8 (even though camera says f/5.6 because it still thinks you are shooting at 400mm). Given the correct exposure in constant light, there should be no difference in shutter speed between shooting at f/8 without the pins taped and at "f/5.6 (according to the camera)" with the pins taped. In both cases, you are shooting at 560mm with the aperture mechanism of the lens as wide open as it can physically get. Hope that makes sense. If I'm missing something here, I look forward to learning about it.

Oh yeah, lovely image !
Great job getting him on such a nice perch with beautiful background and singing to boot !

[c.w. moynihan]

Nice one Josh. A vertical compositon would work better for this pose than the landscape one presented, imo.