Male Blackburnian Warbler.

[Daniel Cadieux]

In general these guys prefer to hang out in evergreens, but readily forage for small insects and other tidbits to glean off deciduous tree leaves. Another from my folks' cottage, gotta love access to a place like that!

Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, cropped fro comp, contrast/saturation adjustments to taste, usual eye work. Audio used.

[arash_hazeghi]

sweet shot Daniel, love the BG and the leaves, if mine I'd clone out the small peel off near the LRC

TFS hope all is well

[Nikhil Patwardhan]

I like the detail in the blacks, esp. on the cheeks and the fine feather detail on the back. What was the pink background btw? Also did you apply NR to the background?

[Jonathan Ashton]

Nice composition and great sharpness for hand held image at that focal length.

[Bill Dix]

Well done getting this beauty in the open Nice light, pose, comp.

[Geoff Newhouse]

I like the natural framing of the leaves on one hand but also find them competing a bit with the subject due to their size. I like the overall colours of the image. Would also be interested to know what the pinkish background was.

TFS
Geoff

[Daniel Cadieux]

Thanks guys!

Oops, forgot to mention that yes indeed, NR applied to the BG only. The BG is a section of the gravel road leading up to my folks' cottage.

[David Salem]

Beautiful well balanced frame Daniel!! Well done

[William Dickson]

Looking real good Dan. Lovely colours throughout and fab detail on the bird.

Will

[Isaac Grant]

Color palette here Daniel is really nice. That walkway makes for a beautiful background. Framing is excellent. Lucky to have these guys down at eye level. The places where they nest around here they stay 50 feet up in the tops of coniferous trees. If this is a set up I think it would be stronger if the leaves were smaller as now they seem to over power the bird a bit.