While passing through Tennessee on our cross-country pet-sitting adventure, I spent a wonderful morning at the
Meeman-Shelby State Forest outside Memphis. The place was loaded with warblers, so I found a decent perch
in a roadside clearing, clipped my speaker to it, and reeled in this cooperative subject.
I've gone for something very different here, mainly because I couldn't make a landscape crop work with OOF green
bit to the right of the bird in the original frame (full frame shown below). There wasn't a lot of light under the canopy,
so I was at f/5.6, a setting which didn't leave me with much DOF on the perch (it's a fallen tree wrapped by woody
vines). Given that the bird was looking up, into the perfect BG, I decided to highlight the negative space above the
bird rather than keep more of OOF perch. I love the interplay of yellow and green, and I'll be curious to see what folks
think of my reasoning and results.
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS R5
1/500 at f/5.6, ISO 2000
Processed in LR CC and Topaz. Cloned a few tiny white spots on bill, but that's it.