You needed some extension tubes to allow you to focus closer. Would have been very nice with all of the bird in focus, You have a good HA and eye contact and a nice clean background.
looking forward to more :)
Very nice image, re: exposure, comp, colour. Agree with Lance, above, re: extension tubes, and other comments, re: focus. I wonder if going to f/5.6 or f/8, and increasing the ISO, might have also helped. Did you use flash?
Akos, the terrain did not allow me to move around a lot,
I was pretty much in a fixed position. Also, these little guys
stay on the perch for a moment or two, not much time to
adjust your view point.
Lance, thanks for the advice, I will look up the extension tubes.
Jory, note that this is 1/40. I simply could not afford
to go slower than that, I had to go with f4.
I did, however, burn the whites a bit even at -0.33 but at the moment
I didn't have too much time (or experience:o) to react and change to f5.6
AND adjust from -0.33.
ISO higher than 400 on my D80 simply adds too much noise.
I know you can deal with noise in PP but somehow I systematically get bad
results with high ISO so lately I shoot only ISO400.
Purple-throated Mountain-gem
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