Canada Warbler redux

[Bill Dix]

I was able to get several frames of this fellow on different perches as he flitted around in the bushes. I had initially rejected this one because of the leaf going through the tail, but after reading the helpful comments on yesterday's post, I decided to process this one. The perch and lighting, while not perfect, are arguably better than yesterday's post. Lets call this one #3a in the warbler series. I'd like to know what you think.

D7000, 500f4 + 1.4, ISO 1000, 1/640s @ f/7.1 manual, tripod. (no flash, alas)

[gail bisson]

I like this much better. Bird is sharper and nicer BG. I might tone down the brightness of BG and leaves a bit.
In a perfect world the tail would not be partially obscured by the leaf but this is such a hard bird to see, let alone get a good shot of that I am Ok with it,
Gail

[Karl Egressy]

Great head turn \and eye contact against nice background, Bill.

[Alan Murphy]

Nicely done Bill. I might add black to the mid tones a bit.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, curvy perch and BG. I agree with Gail on toning down the brightness. Well done Bill!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I agree with you that the leaf blocking the tail is an unfortunate bummer, but the bird looks great, as well as the perch and background. Good comp too.

[Bill Dix]

Thanks, everyone, for commenting. I've played around with curves and selective color in the midtones, and taken the bg brightness down a notch. Does this help? Now if I could just clone out that leaf.

[Bill Dix]

Here's one more repost. I was troubled by the amount of green in the yellow breast feathers, but wasn't sure what to do about it. I may be caused by filtered or reflected light through the leaf canopy. But I discovered that if I took 15% of cyan out of the yellow channel, it looked better to my eye.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful image. Great pose, bg and details.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Repost #3 looks a lot better to me. Nice bird and clean BG. Keep them coming.