Canada Warbler

[Myer Bornstein]

I have spent the last week in the southern Appalachians to West Virginia at the new River neo-tropical Festival both birding and doing photography. It is a beautiful scenic area, the majority of birds that we observed were warblers. This Canada warbler was enticed down by recorded calls which was utilized intermittently and it came within 10 to 15 feet of us. Picture was adjusted in Photoshop and cropped. Nikon D300s and Sigma 150-500.
150-500mm @ 500mm
750mm (in 35mm film)
Subject dist: 5.31m
1/800 sec, f/10
Mode: Av
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 800
White balance: Auto

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great find and good-looking specimen. You could have dialed in positive EC as it looks underexposed as presented. Maybe a bit more sharpening?

[Myer Bornstein]

Thanks Axel
here it is with more sharping and EC

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like that there are more details in the repost. The lightening brought out some noise but that is to be expected. Dialing in EC +1 in-camera would have helped in this kind of light.

[Daniel Cadieux]

This definitely needed lots of +EC, and/or flash to avoid underexposure. The one thing you got going for you here is the great view of its' best fieldmark - the "necklace".