Tropical Gnatcatcher

[Bill Dix]

From Costa Rica, last month. Taken in the wild (i.e no setup) not far from our lodge at Cano Negro. C&C appreciated.

D7000 | 80-400 VR @ 370mm | ISO 1250 | 1/640s @ f6.3 | -0.3 EV | HH

[Munish Kaushik]

wow !!!

love the greens & positioning of the bird. HA looks nice to me.

Regards,
Munish Kaushik
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[Charles Mills]

Splendid image. I'm just curious. Was noise reduction applied to the background?

[Bill Dix]

Splendid image. I'm just curious. Was noise reduction applied to the background?

Thanks Charles. Yes, I spent a bit of time trying to mask the background from the subject foliage, and then ran a fairly heavy dose of Topaz DeNoise on the BG.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Sweet image. Love the pose and the BG is outstanding.

[Charles Mills]

It appears that you did an excellent job with the noise reduction. I struggle with that at times but, like you, do have Topaz DeNoise.

[Steven Kersting]

Nice image. really like the pose.

IMO it's a touch flat and a bit dark overall.... (I checked it in Firefox and it looks the same there even though the pic is missing it's color space tag.)

[Linda Dulak]

Bill: I like this unusual pose but with good eye contact. If this were mine I might be enticed to crop some from the right as the dead leaves there continue to draw my eye away from the bird. But all in all this is a nice image without a setup.

I'm also pleased to see the performance of the D7000 at a higher ISO. I tend to keep my new D7000 at 800 or below but am starting to explore the capabilities at higher ISOs.

Thanks for showing.

Linda