Mistletoebird - female

[Chris Martinez]

Dicaeum hirundinaceum

Brisbane - QLD - AUS.

1D4, 600mm IS, 1.4x II, Tripod.

ISO 800, f/7.1, 1/1600, -0.67 EC, Evaluative Metering, Aperture Priority.

Crop, Sharpen. Removed small portion of branch/vine.

This little lady had just finished bathing amongst dew covered leaves and decided to dry her feathers in the warm early morning sun. She sat here for one whole minute The joys of photographing small birds during winter

[gail bisson]

Pretty bird on a stick!
Good BG and diagonal line. Nice HA and dorsal view.
At first glance I thought that was blood on the rump!

[PhilCook]

I still haven' managed a decent image of a female of this species, always seem to find the males instead.

Nice diagonals and fine detail on the feathers standing out from the body, but a little soft on the back....maybe dof a tad shallow. I'd be trying to clone out the yellowish band on the top to give a more uniform backdrop, but maybe difficult.

Has a rather nice peaceful feel to this image, a little melancholy maybe...nice work Chris

[Randy Stout]

Chris:

She does look a bit introspective. Like the angled perch. She could use a bit more USM to my eye.

The yellow band on top could be easily smoothed with clone stamp set at 30%, sample off the green, and gently work over the transition area in a random pattern.

Cheers

Randy

[Rachel Hollander]

Nice light and pose. Agree on a little more sharpening.

TFS,
Rachel

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Chris, I like the 'scruffy' look on this lady, together with the semi look down pose. Blending in the top part of the BG will work.

[Chris Martinez]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts folks

I do agree a little BG work would improve things.