I check out my spot and the kirtlands are back and got a few shots before the wind came up
Canon MarkIII
canon 600mm
better beamer
iso 400
1/2000@ f/8.0
tripod
Last edited by Dennis "Curly" Buchner; 05-15-2010 at 03:10 PM.
Lucky you...this is obviously a bird high on many people's "want" list! Good comp, I like that you chose a vertical. The chin/breast are abit warm and need toning down. Shouldn't be a difficult task as details seem to be there. Too bad about that FG "sprout".
It's a great species to get. The image has a few nits, though. Firstly, the chest is a bit hot. What bugs me more, though, is the strange cloning in the right corner. You can see the pattern repeat itself... It looks like you cloned the lower part of the perch in as well?
Thanks everybody for your help, as I should have cropped like I first planned instead of trying to clone distracting out of focus buds. Just tried to do things in a hurry and got a bad image.