Kinda an awkward/goofy capture, but it seems unique and I liked the exposure. There were many more OOF branches in the original, which I've cloned out. Not thrilled about the remaining ones, but I try to do minimal cloning when it will intersect with feathers. Also, I believe the few remaining branches may help fill the empty space a bit. This is essentially a "lucky shot", but perhaps more DOF would help on the wing?
Not that I'll be recreating the scenario anytime soon! hah.
taken recently at Island Beach State Park, New Jersey
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 700 mm
Exposure: 0.00
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: +1/3 EV
Flash: On, Fired
Beautiful specimen,
Good colors, sharpness and exposure. I like the wing and the spread tail.
Not a fan of frames in general, especially of heavy ones. I would remove one catchlight.
Dave, I think you did a good job w/ the exposure and the sharpness. The pose is nice. I agree you could have probably stopped down to get more in focus. I shoot at Island Beach alot but this year haven't made it down there.
Thanks for the comments everyone, I've cloned out another branch here and removed a 2nd catchlight.
Denise - I had a great day at Island Beach, chased around a lot of Kinglets, and some Winter Wrens, and Brown Creepers. Also stayed to shoot sunset. Some of the those shots are on flickr now.
Funny pose - there are a few species that seem to occasionally react to flash by twitching their wings in this manner...chickadees, kinglets, and these yellow-rumps all come to mind. Although you cloned out the smaller of the two catchlights, there is still some "steel-eye" caused by the flash visible on the lower part of the eye. Those OOF branches are unfortunate, but warblers do dwell amongst the trees!!
One Yellow-Rump a' flappin'
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