Taken yesterday morning. Warblers are starting to migrate through my area. I was pretty close and the rest of the image was pretty
tight and busy so I went ahead with a portrait. An out of focus leaf was removed from in front of the bird. Straight size reduction with
no sharpening.
D500/500F4VRII/TC-14EIII
F8, 1/800s, iso800
You did well with the off-angled light. But the lower right corner is a mess. I cleaned that up with a crop. Again I'd love to see a JPEG that shows the full frame image.
with love, artie
ps: whenever possible, try to point your shadow at the bird ...
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The colors, light, and details here are wonderful, and I agree with the crop improvement offered by Artie. It's really nice to see such a close-up shot
of this usually arboreal little bird!
Jpeg of out of camera raw file. I don't get much opportunity to pursue these birds as they don't breed in this area.
I'm more tolerant of less than ideal images since I don't have many images of them. I normally wouldn't have bothered
with removing the leaf.
Thanks. I like the full frame image much better than the tight awkward crop in Pane 1.
with love, arite
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I'm liking the image in pane #6 best. Had you pointed your lens an inch or two more to the left (and 1/2 inch lower) you'd have something nice to work with as I am OK with the leaves, light angle notwithstanding.