Red-legged Honeycreeper, shot in Costa Rica with Nikon D3s + 400/2.8 VR at 1/750 f11 -1/3, flash, 3200 iso.
Thanks for looking, Giulio
Red-legged Honeycreeper, shot in Costa Rica with Nikon D3s + 400/2.8 VR at 1/750 f11 -1/3, flash, 3200 iso.
Thanks for looking, Giulio
Really nice colors and pose with a complementary BG, Guilio.
Maybe the top of the head could be darkened a bit - looks distractingly light compared to the rest of the bird.
And the catchlight (from flash, I assume) seems a bit large.
Just curious: why were you stopped down so much for an isolated bird?
Wow that is some seriously plumage on this guy!! What a beauty!! Good pose, perch, comp. I agree the catchlight (and refelction) is a bit big, and I also agree that opening up (and lowering the ISO somewhat, you had enough SS to do so) would be good options in the field. There is a pale area of the BG skimming the bird's back that could be selectively darkened a bit.
Great pose and nice sharpness. Good detail in both the blues and the blacks. I have to agree with the others about your choice of camera settings. If anything, it looks like motion blur rather than a DOF issue; you can see the softness in the wing tips, which are behind the tail feathers. I leave for Costa Rica in a couple of days and hope to come away with some good Honeycreeper shots of my own!
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I get an eye-massage soaking in those rich blues and that simple green BG. Daniel has some good suggestions about the catchlight and the BG skimming the bird's back. Regarding your use of ISO 3200, let me say that I'm on my klunky old laptop, which has a monitor that is unforgiving when it comes to noisy photos, and I'm not seeing so very much noise at all in your shot. Your second post, in which you explain your stopping down to f11, is instructive. I think you saw the need for some DOF, and you possibly dialed down without even looking, all the while trusting that your camera could handle ISO 3200.
Super looking species and lovely colours. Sharp and great exposure
Chris Kotze
impressive that this is shot at iso3200, interesting bird, looks a bit like batman (mask and cape), lovely colors
Darkening the feathers on head would just ruin the image since those are the real colors of those feathers.
I also belive that it was not necessary to stop down so much, may be f/6.3? any ways, the image is yours and you do what you think is best. I agree that this birds move a lot, they are small and have to be careful since they have lots of predators.![]()