Canon 7D, 70-200 f/4 +1.4x III @ 280mm; f/5.6, 1/160s, ISO 800. Manual Exposure. RAW image cropped, NR, slight sharpening in LR; Levels, sharpening in CS5. Shot 6:15pm, overcast skies.
What else might I do to improve this high-key image?
Canon 7D, 70-200 f/4 +1.4x III @ 280mm; f/5.6, 1/160s, ISO 800. Manual Exposure. RAW image cropped, NR, slight sharpening in LR; Levels, sharpening in CS5. Shot 6:15pm, overcast skies.
What else might I do to improve this high-key image?
Last edited by Steve Wasson; 05-24-2011 at 05:13 PM.
Beautiful Image!
The flowers in the frame make it even more interesting...Exposure is spot on and the pose is also very nice.
Quite loverly. Love the flowers, the soft light, and the high key look. Wonderfully sharp. With more above and below, a vertical might have been a contest winner.
The only distractions for me are the dark bit of branch behind the mid-back and the few nubs on the branches. All of those could go if you wish.
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Hi Steve. Excellent sharpness and exposure. I like Artie's idea of a vertical comp - I would wish for a little more room at the top so those 2 blossoms weren't clipped.![]()
I too would prefer seeing the complete flowers above rather than being clipped. I do wish the leaf wasn't touching the tail tip, but the image works remarkably well overall!
Sweet shot. Good comments above re. composition, but this is a winner in my book. Amazing you could get close enough to get this guy at 280mm. Are Minnesota warblers tamer than New Jersey ones?
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'll try to implement them in a repost tomorrow.
Re. Minnesota Warblers... Bill, I honestly don't know if we have any that stay here. I'm new to warblers this year. We had about 10 different varieties that spent a week + in the park/creek behind our house as they migrated through. Only a couple visited our yard. They were NOT tame. I took over 1000 pics, very few were keepers.
This is the only Cape May I saw this spring. He feasted on the cherry blossoms for hours a day. The he discovered the Grape Jelly, I put out for the Orioles. Then the apple tree... Alas, he's moved north for the summer...
I started out 15' from the tree, hand-holding my camera in shooting position. Whenever he'd move to a branch where I was hid from view, I take a step forward, until I was only 3' from the tree. The cramps were worth it!
Last edited by Steve Wasson; 05-24-2011 at 10:31 PM.
Steve, There are surely some warblers that stay to breed by you. Check the range maps in a good guide and then learn the songs. Then see Dan's article on luring them in with playback.
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Here is a repost attempting to incorporate your suggestions... removed distractions; recropped, including more above & below. There is a little more image below, but unfortunately there was a another bunch of flowers between me & the bird's perch that shows as OOF white cast...
I'm just not sure how to incorporate the flowers above in a way that doesn't cut off at least one flower. Does the branch edge cause problems for you? (Oh, and I "cheated" by moving that top flower bunch a bit to the right.)
Last edited by Steve Wasson; 05-25-2011 at 11:12 AM.
I do like the extra flowers above!
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I too love the extra flowers above Steve.. what a pretty setting this..![]()
Once again, let me say that I REALLY love this image, all the more because of my on-going struggle with warblers. I might have considered something like this. Cropped a bit off the top and right (and removed a stray piece of leaf), and added a slivver of canvas to the left to reposition the bird.
The image in pane #11 is excellent...way to go on the repost!! To answer your question, the branch edge does not bother me.
Steve, pane#11 is a winner all the way. Great setting, and the yellow's of the warbler against the high key and white flowers stand out so well. I also like the angled pose too.