This is another setup image from Costa Rica. All C&Cs are welcome and appreciated.
Canon 40D
500L f/4
1.4 Extender
ISO 400
f/6.3
1/100s
Tripod
This is another setup image from Costa Rica. All C&Cs are welcome and appreciated.
Canon 40D
500L f/4
1.4 Extender
ISO 400
f/6.3
1/100s
Tripod
I like the diagonal branch and the details you are showing here. More DOF would have have made this even better. Well done.
Mikko
Striking colours Jim, with a good pre-take off pose. You have had some pretty attractive visitors to your set up.![]()
Great looking bird with a good pose...I like the clean BG...Only crit for me is some NR in the BG...Nice one Jim
Another great one jim - they just keep coming! Nice BG sets off the bird. Might have been better if you could get the bird parallel to see the side and tail.
I'll have to go to Costa Rica - many of the images I've seen here on BPN of birds from that country show quite spectacular birds.
Stunning bird, good shot. When you say "setup image," what are we supposed to take from that? That you lured the bird with food? That the BG is a poster? Being a Nikon user, I can only wonder why you decided on ISO 400, which led to the rather shallow f6.3 to get you to a SS of 1/100. Could your camera have handled ISO 800? In that case, correct me if I'm mistaken, a stop down to f8 would have kept you at 1/100 and got a bit more of the bird in sharper focus. I'm aware that the tail, which is nearly perpendicular to us, could not have been brought into focus.
Thanks for the comments and questions Craig. The term setup is a broad term. In this instance the branch is attached to a tripod with banana piece place in a spot on that branch. The BG in 95% of my setups is natural. I placed the setup near a feeding area. The big challenge was fighting the squirrels off! I have not had much luck with ISO above 400. I have been told by Daniel Cadieux that this can be pushed higher with the 40D and have seen his great results. I did not want to experiment with higher ISO on my trip to Costa Rica but will be working on it here at home this spring. I hope this answers your questions.
Jim
Really like the subdued colors. Like the position of the bird as well.
Jim
Beginning to wonder if there's an species you didn't see in CR
Stunning bird, interesting perch and excellent representative BG
Again having the branch parallel to the camera sensor would have helped prevent the difference in focus/sharpness along the branch. Would also have preferred a HA slightly more towards the viewer, but that's beyond anyone's control. I might have also improved/cleaned up the eye a bit, but that's personal taste
Still a keeper and nicely done - thanks for sharing
Absolute stunner . Great HA , colours , sharpness . Maybe a bit more DOF .
Thanks for the comments and suggestions Peter. This was the Tanager year for me. Not too many hummingbirds coming to the feeders at the finca.
On this image this wasn't the spot I wanted him to be. I tried two perches facing out like rabbit ears. I didn't have them anchored down tight enough so once in a while they would rotate and no longer be parallel to the sensor.