Hello! It's my heartfelt pleasure to present this picture, taken yesterday with the Canon 7D and 70-300L at 300mm, iso400, 1/1000, f5.6. What you see here amounts to about 75% of the original. I'm in love with these tiny birds and enjoy the challenge of getting them (reasonably) out in the open. They do flutter around. And more to the heart's delight, they are a sign of the approaching Spring. Of course I'll open-mindedly welcome your comments and considerations...
Congrats on getting this little guy. I havn't been so lucky. Perhaps if you darken the areas of overlap on the foreground branches the overlap isn't so noticable.... It helps me sometimes, just a thought
Cheryl, that is an excellent thought. I'm hoping some folks will give me tips like that! Anything to make the overlap less noticeable, as you say. No easy task, that's for sure. But what fun! Thanks sincerely for chiming in...
I like this one a lot. For such a little guy he sure looks tough. The OOF branches in the FG and BG distract a bit but I think you could easily deal with them and I might take a bit off the left so that the infocus branch leaves the frame in the left upper corner. Good IQ on the bird,
Gail
This is so nice. I have only seen these at a far distance and never taken a photo of one. He is so cute and displaying his yellow crown is a real big deal! They are never really out in the open so this is very good. Very nice as is but I would probably spend the time to clean up the background, but then I love that kind of stuff. Keep looking for more of them that is what is fun.
Huzzah, folks...I'll spend my time looking for more kinglets instead! I don't really mid the background mess and my photoshop skills (although improving) are no match for the semi-bad clutter in this picture! Quite right; this is one tough kinglet. One of our smallest treebirds, but a real TOUGH GUY
Looks like you seriously ticked this little bird off Jack. I don't mind the bits and pieces in bg and have been trying for years to get such a nice clean shot. Photo just seems a bit dark to me. Good luck on getting another.
I'm OK with the BG, it's just the OOF branch passing in fornt of the others at left that I wish was not there. Still pretty nice to have one of these come out in the open for you. It does look teed off at you though! Some fill would have helped here IMO. It would have been neat to have this little fella looking directly down the barrel, but I'd be happy to have this...
Thanks Daniel...I'm happy to have it too but I agree with your criticism on all counts. It's a good effort and I'll certainly be back at it, although the challenge is vaguely infuriating. In a nice way, that is. And how many things outside of bird photography, in this life, could be thusly described? The upside to kinglet photography, I've learned, is that both varieties of kinglet will let you get pretty close. The downsides are obvious and too numerous to mention! Fill flash. Yes indeed. I keep thinking about getting myself a flash. I worry about bothering the birds more than I already am...something to think about...
You're welcome. Dedicated flash units such as the 580EX or 430EX do a better job but in the meantime the inboard flash on the 7D does the job when in a bind. From close range such as your image here reduce the flash exposure down to -1 to -2 and you should be fine.
Yes. With the inboard flash you are "capped" at 1/250s. so it is tricky in stronger light. Still useful at times when needed though. With the dedicated flash units mentioned earlier you can set them to "high speed sync" which permits you to use any shutter speed above that - great for fill.
Golden-Crowned Kinglet, giving me the eyes
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