This little fellow was having lots of fun taking a bath in my backyard pond we get lots of warblers during spring and fall This was taken on a heavily overcast day in the shade around midday
D300 120-400mm
ISO 400
1/80 f5.6
no flash
hand held
cropped to 2799x1859
minor exposure adjustments in Lightroom then cloned some purple flowers from foreground and sharpening in PS
Hi Raffi- Beautiful Blackburnian Warbler. Despite the overcast conditions the light looks bright, almost sunlit. The colours on this bird really glow. I like the low angle you have achieved. It looks like you have the opportunity here to go really low because of the little waterfall. That can produce some very attractive results.
The crop is not for me here. The bird is looking into the shorter side of the frame and I don't think the moss, much of which is OOF, is a strong enough element in the image to retain. If the image quality allows it I would crop a lot off the right, some off the bottom, and some all around to really feature the bird. I checked the yellow/orange tones and there are areas where the red channel is at maximum (255 in an 8-bit image) so theres no detail in that channel. You can tone that down in Adobe Camera Raw or later on. Have a look at these BPN threads:
Greetings. Looks like you have pretty steady hands for this ss (guessing on the long side of the 120-400?). I like the color. Agree with John on the crop.
John, thanks for the input here is the new crop I was thinking the same but did not want to reduce the size of the image so much
I could not get any closer to fill the frame with the bird with the 400 lens...
Also I re checked the red channel and in both PS 5 and Lightroom 3 it didn't look like I was clipping the red channel Maybe I'm doing it wrong please explain?
Thanks Michael, but I was laying down with both elbows on the ground to support the lens and yes focal length was 400mm.
Raffi
Last edited by Raffi Schayngesicht; 06-18-2011 at 03:52 PM.
WARBLER HAVING FUN
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