The golf course is a great area for seeing birds. Spotting this vermillion flycatcher this morning while playing in a tournament. Went right home to get my camera and he was still flying off the same brush. He was alternating with the phoebes and a yellow rump. Over an hour or so, I was able to get almost to get within 20 feet or so. Hope seeing him there today means he has a mate on a nest nearby.
D300 500 f/4 AFS I
1/100 f/9 ISO 800 (the background was a long ways off when I got close)
SB600 -0.7 BB on Wimberley flash mount off to the side (over the lens even on the bracket, I was getting steel eye)
Benro C-358m8, CB gimbal-LS
LR>CS4, raw cv, L, C, cloned out a few stray branches, resized and sharped
background looks a little noisy still
I like the bird and the perch, but I wonder if the image was overexposed
since the reds on the head lack detail.
On my monitor I can also see some cloning artifacts on the lower left corner.
Red bird pops nicely against the green BG. Red are significantly clipped losing a lot of detail - reviewing the threads in Educational Resources on reds and reprocessing the file would be worthwhile. Angled away pose is not ideal. BG noise could be reduced. Cloning marks mentioned. I am sure with a bit more work you will extract a lot more from this image. Sounds like a great opportunity that you had on the golf course, Mack.
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