Assignment - S.O.C. -- Mistletoebird
Found a pair of these flowerpeckers (the only flowerpeckers in Oz) on Christmas Day 2008, nesting not far from my home. This is a straight RAW-TIFF-jpeg conversion only. No crop, nada. This is the lady of the house BTW. The male is black/red/white.
TECHS: 30D, 300mm f/4L IS USM + 2x (exif shows lens only as I tape pins on 2x), ISO 400, f/6.3, 1/80th, tripod, flash at about zero with beamer.
Great HA and eye contact Akos. I'm sure someone will say something about the light on the right side of the image.
Regards,
Good exposure Akos !! Easy highlight fix !!
Even when I have room (with stationary subjects) I try holding focus and recomposing in camera. No real difference than cropping here but just keeps me on my toes !! btw I'm always impressed with the sharpness of your images at the slow shutter speed !!!
I think Alfred covered it..I like it!
Beautiful HA and details! Well done-
Akos, this is very nice..good head angle and eye contact, just needs a little cropping for compositional balance and some selective sharpening on the eye...good show...:cool:
hi Akos - I like this a lot as well - haven't seen these guys before. Agree with the above comments just the cropping and bg highlight.
Good show :)
Very sharp Akos with good exposure on the bird. Just looks like a few bright spots in the BG. Do you use electrical tape to tape the pins???
Hi Jackie, thanks for your comment.Originally Posted by Jackie Schuknecht
I could have used electrical tape, but this time it was plain cellophane sticky tape. AF works intermittently, but cannot lock on, at least I rarely managed, but in MF mode I get the focus point light up and confirmation beep when the subject is in focus. :)
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