Common Yellowthroat

[DarrenMcKenna]

Common Yellowthroat
(Geothlypis trichas)

Canon 40D
Canon 500L IS + 1.4x

This is FF and I tried a vertical crop but preferred leaving a horizontal composition.


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[Stu Bowie]

Darren, super calling pose, and I really like the overall colours in this, both on the yellowthroat, and the BG. Well exposed, especially around the eye. If this were mine, I would create a vertical crop, and add space on top, and move him to the left a bit.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Such a beauty... loved the pose and a beautiful looking subject.. I more vote for more room on top.

[Mital Patel]

well as said above this is a fantastic shot and my vote goes to horizontal frame but move the bird to left and some room at top.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree it needs more room. I see it is FF...would you have had time to remove the TC? You got a terrific calling pose, and a wonderful BG, not to mention very sweet light :-)

[DarrenMcKenna]

If this were mine, I would create a vertical crop, and add space on top, and move him to the left a bit.

I have hundreds of photos of these guys just as you mentioned, as I already said I preferred this one horizontal. :)


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[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great light, pose and BG. You could probably add canvas since the BG is very clean.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Darren, beautiful image. loved the BG.

Can you elaborate on why you preferred the horizontal? other than the fact that you have many verticals. I like to read self-critiques and it helps me learn. One reason I come to this site often.

[DarrenMcKenna]

Kaustubh, I like to process all my RAW files with Canon's "Digital Photo Professional" software. When I crop an image I like to keep it at a aspect ratio, for example a horizontal image would be 4:3, 3:2. For vertical perhaps 2:3, 3:4 or 4 When I cropped at the vertical aspect I found the crop was too tight.

Granted I could easily add canvas and change it to any aspect ratio. Instead I opted to leave it at full frame (FF) and show the out of focus (OOF) background (BG)

BTW I cloned out a reed I didn't like, can you tell where it was?


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[Kaustubh Deshpande]

No..I cant tell where the reed would have been.

[Nagesh Mula]

Its a very beautiful picture, very sharp and excellent pose. Like others I too feel for Vertical crop. If its been my picture I would have added for more space at the top and did a vertical crop. I guess adding/cropping a canvas is permissible in most of the contests while clonning is not allowed.
So still its fine without having any guilt pangs :-).