Canon 30D
100-400L IS
400mm
ISO 320
f/8.0
1/500s
Handheld
This is another image from Finca Oro. This Green Thorntail is the male. He is very small and often hovers around my ears and at the lens hood. Perches around the house between feedings and fighting/playing with other males. All comments are appreciated.
Amazing image, Jim!
I like everything about it. Composition, light, pose, perch, exposure ...
There's an overall softness to the image that give it a nice mood imo.
Congrats.
Last edited by Sidharth Kodikal; 11-24-2009 at 05:09 PM.
In a perfect world the blue patch would not be directly above the head. Nice pose and good BG overall. Like the presentation lots. The colors are amazing. Thanks for sharing. :)
One more vote for having the blue patch gone. For the rest I like it a lot. The look back pose makes it special for me. Beautiful bird with nice colors. Well done.
Jim --another beauty my man!! Can you crop in at all on this one? The blue spot had to go as others said, and the repost looks much better. I feel now the thing to do is to gain back a third element of interest which was lost with the blue spot. What I'm getting at is with three great interest comp units you begin to really put the dynamics into an image. The viewer jumps between them without getting the monotony of duality of a two unit comp. I don't know a better way to express it, but three or more things that are interesting tend to get a picture really going. Here you could do this by playing with the light and dark of the bg. First off the demarcation between the light and dark area I would say should be made a more gentle transition. It's too hard as is. Then you could darken (slightly and subtly) the lower left maybe so that you create a light spot at the upper right and an opposing darker spot at the lower left. In fact this is often referred to as "opposition of spots" and creates an implied diagonal--almost always a good thing to foster the dynamic. Of course you would be doing more of an area thing instead of spots--but same effect. There are some other possibilities so playing with some various ones might get one to give you some gained ground on this already wonderful shot.
Jim, really nice image. Love the light. I actually kind of liked the blue spot because it mirrored the bluish color in the tail but it looks like I'm in the minority :-)
Greg makes an interesting point--the blue spot did add something to this image. My thoughts were that it brings out a third comp unit or element which then also creates more things to look at -hence more dynamic, but Gregs point about the blue complimenting and therefore augmenting the blue tail is pretty real also. If only the blue were not so manifested as a spot--and right above his head. You might play with some blue sky areas Jim--I think they might rock. Course if you don't have such canvas available this could seriously tax your PS skills--I know it would mine.
Green Thorntail
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