Tody flycatcher

[gary rouleau]

Costa Rica with Doug Brown and Greg Basco.

Canon markIII
Lens 300mm f/2.8 + 1.4x

ISO 640 f/4 at 1/400 +1/3ev
Flashed and hand held.

cheers
gary

[Brian Zwiebel]

Gary, The BG is a little busy but otherwise you did very well. Lots of great feather details and I enjoy the over the shoulder view. The whole image might be able to go brighter.

Good Shooting!

BZ

[Ashutosh Sinha]

You owe this flycatcher big time :-), it sat still for you. These tiny fellas are so difficult to photograph.
I agree with Brian on brightness. You can't have done anything about the background and it does not bother me.

[Alfred Forns]

Fine capture Gary Sharp and well expose along with a great pose !!!

Not sure what you did to the bg? Would smooth out some transitions like the green to the left !!! Excellent !!!!

[gary rouleau]

Thanks guys. What I did to the bg was some noise reduction and contrast. I agree a little more work is needed.
cheers
gary

[Harshad Barve]

Fantastic image , lovely details in feathers & eye
TFS

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely looking bird - quite an impressive bill for a little bird and great details. Have tried a quick version setting white and black points on a curve and then nudging the colour balance a little away from green to magenta and darkening the surrounds to focus more on the bird. Never seen one of these so not sure on what is natural colour-wise in the yellow but the OP seems to have a greenish cast.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Great composition and sharpness in my book Agree on brightening it and the distracting background. JR

[Kiran Poonacha]

great looking Bird, loved the pose and details, the eye contact is good, but still feel a tad more haad turn would have made it better. still love the image.. congrats...

[Dan Brown]

Great shot of this tiny, tiny bird Gary! What a fun time that was!