Palm Warbler

[Dave Blinder]

Cape May, New Jersey

Figured I'd finally post a shot in decent light! I Apologize for watermark and border in advance. This photo is pretty much as shot otherwise, I find the original can't even bare much sharpening.



Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 700 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 500
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

[Jim Buescher]

A really nice image of this species in it's Fall plumage. HA, light, Exp, and sharpness all well done with a nice clean complimentary BG (one dust spot in front of breast). Border and watermark apology noted.

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful expo , compo and sharpness
TFS

[Simon Bennett]

Excellent pose and head-turn, and lovely smooth background. You've captured amazing detail in the plumage, although on my monitor it looks just a little oversharpened.

[denise ippolito]

Dave, Beautiful pose and HA. I like the golden gradient BG. Very nice details and agree it looks a tiny bit oversharpened - but not much. Well done!

[Dave Blinder]

Thanks everyone, I've noted the comments over sharpening. I ran a high pass filter on this one, with only about an 20% opacity layer. This beautiful warbler allowed me to get near minimum focusing distant in perfect light, and I stepped down a bit to keep the bill sharp. The feather grain isn't exaggerated here, but perhaps less overpowering in the full sized file.

Dust spot noted too, thanks Jim. I had the ISO cranked up a bit higher than necessary here because I was hoping to make a close-up liftoff shot. Unfortunately I didn't nail one this time. Otherwise I generally do this situation in ISO 100.

[Ed Schneider]

Hey Dave, great to see you here on BPN! I've been slacking of late myself. Awesome fall palm image, all points covered ;^)

[arash_hazeghi]

very beautiful, love the BG and detail. Perch is OK if not killer. Sharpness is pretty good too. YFS