Passerini's Tanager

[Katie Rupp]

The female Passerini's Tanager has very different coloration than the male who is dramatic in black and red and a really big challenge photographically! This is from Doug and Greg's Costa Rica worshop. C&C encouraged and greatly appreciated.

1dm3; f6.3, 1/400; ISO 500; 500f4 + 1.4x

[Jeff Dyck]

Beautiful image Katie - great pose and I love the deep green background. I might consider a bit of "eye-doctoring" to bring out the reds - I think the red would look particularly good in this shot with the other bold primary colours.



Edit - looks like there might be some embedded profile issues - the colours in my repost look different than Katie's original (I didn't change anything there - I definitely prefer the greens in the original)

[Katie Rupp]

Thanks, Jeff, I like the "eye doctoring" and I will make that change to mine as well... without changing the greens, of course.

Best,
Katie

[Randy Stout]

Katie:

Soft light, nice look back, original BG color nice.

Perch a bit massive for this bird, but that effect is somewhat lessened by the pose, and angle of perch.

Jeff's rework on the eye certainly perked it up. I haven't seen this bird in person to know if that is realistic or not.

Cheers

Randy

[Katie Rupp]

Katie:

Soft light, nice look back, original BG color nice.

Perch a bit massive for this bird, but that effect is somewhat lessened by the pose, and angle of perch.

Jeff's rework on the eye certainly perked it up. I haven't seen this bird in person to know if that is realistic or not.

Cheers

Randy

Thanks Randy, I think the eye is somewhere in between...

[Harshad Barve]

great pose , details and BG here , excellent
TFS

[Richard Unsworth]

Very nice; colors are good to me in your OP, in fact I was looking at a real one yesterday as I am in Panama
Nice lookback, exposure and sharpness
I like these birds, common here but a very nice bird indeed!

[Greg Basco]

Hi, Katie. Everything looks good on this one. As for the perch, well, you know that we had to set it up so it would hold toucans as well I think working on the eye a bit was a nice touch but I agree that somewhere in between and not touching the BG color would be the perfect way to do it.

Cheers,
Greg

[James Salywoda]

Awesome shot Katie I like the look back pose and the excellent detail.

[Doug Brown]

Hey Katie. I see we've opened up the floodgates! Like the eye contact and sharpness. I might darken the perch a little. On my laptop the bird and BG look like they could use a slight saturation boost. Another vote for an eye in between the two posted versions.