Theme: Jiminy Cricket

[Moe Richard]

This image of an Emerald Tanager was taken in eastern Costa Rica. Overcast and under the jungle canopy. Taken early on my trip while I was still trying to figure out how to maximize iso and fill flash. This is pushing it for iso-6400.

Iso 6400, 500 mm PF, F7 .1, 1600th, D 500, fill flash at -3, handheld, 65% full frame

[annmpacheco]

Wow a lemonlime treat, and a really like the positioning of jiminy! That lone antennae is cool along with the horizontal fett. Might clean the eye a bit. Very nice bokeh and an overload of color! HA terrific, well done.

[Aditya Sridhar]

What an amazing capture Moe! The bird, the pose and the cricket are spectacular. I second Ann's suggestion. I also see some artefacts near the antennae - probably noise - which needs cleaning up. I would also suggest toning down the contrast a bit since some detail in the Blacks are blocked and the Yellows near the tail region are slightly blown out on my screen.

Very cool shot!

[gail bisson]

Great bird, great prey and lovely perch.
I agree 100% with Aditya's suggestion re: blacks.
Gail

[Jack Backs]

Neat bird, pose and prey. Looks a tad over sharpened to me.

[dankearl]

Excellent... one of your nicest Costa Rica photos for me.
I only wish you could have got more DOF but impossible with the light I know..

[John Mack]

Great view of this bird and the prey. Love that neon color on the bird as well. Composition looks spot on as well.

[Mervyn Marsh]

Very pretty photo, feels like i'm right there in a forest, the prey is bonus, cheers, Merv

[Dorian Anderson]

Ditto on what others have said, but I will add I think this image looks very heavily processed to me as evidenced by the artifacts around the bug's legs. The bird is kind of crunchy as though a lot of sharpening has been applied while the
background has had a ton of NR done on it. I think you need to equilibrate the processing across the image so it doesn't look so.....well.....processed.