Wilson's Warbler

Wow! Up close and personal with this one! Congrats on the lifer! Sharon

Congrats on getting a lifer! Excellent details and colors. Love the eye contact. Nicely done.

Well done - not too tight for me. Congrats on the Lifer!

Very nice as posted. This was a scarce migrant in my NJ days, and a common migrant here in AZ. But I've never had one pose so cooperatively and I'd be thrilled to have taken this.

Really nice image of this bird. The larger version reveals great detail. Good eye contact and catch light. I think I would loosen the crop a bit.

Very nice clean image,and I have no concerns. I do have a question about the flash/Better Beamer (BMW?)(sorry couldn't resist) So I have one of these with my Nikon setup but 500mm and 1.4X with SB800 flash. My experience is that the smaller birds, i.e. finches, warblers, nuthatches, chickadees, etc. really don't like the flash. Most of my images taken with my BB and flash have wings asunder and upset critters. I set the flash for fill and as low as possible but it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. What are you doing differently or is this the only image you got out of 40 where the bird didn't move?

David, I set my flash to High Speed Sync and depending how far away I am working and the ambient light conditions, I usually will set the flash somewhere between -2/3 to -1 2/3 power to start out unless I really need to reach or I have a bright backlit situation. With FF you shoot just as you normally would without flash. As far as spooking birds, sometimes it does. However, today I found that most actively feeding warblers and vireos just kind of kept on feeding. Actually several times the birds paused and actually gave a better head angle. I also set my drive mode to low continuous and I try to give a few second between shots. The challenge I had with this bird wasn't that it was spooked by the flash, it was that they tend to feed in dense understory/bushes and they move around constantly. So I would get a nice sharp one, but its tail was cut off by a leaf or branch. Or the body was great, but part of its head was under a leaf, etc.

Lovely detail and pose, Bryan. Maybe a bit tight, but not severely so.

Fine work on this Willie, and congratulations on the lifer. These little guys breed in our area, but are famously hard to get out in the open like this; well done.

Bryan,
great detail, pose and background. Excellent work.

Very nice Bryan.
May

Nice shot Bryan. Not anything to nit pick on this one, well done.

Ronnie

You've gotta love getting a lifer image. What a day, huh? This is just a thought, but I might crop out the bottom Y of the perch and include more canvas at the top of the image. Otherwise, beautiful position, headturn, catchlight, exposure, and detail. Excellent Bryan! Congrats again to the lifer. Feels really good , doesn't it?

Nice way to get a lifer - like the pose and head turn

cheers
Rob

Bryan,

I had one of these outside my living room window in a bush a few weeks ago, it spent hours there but I couldn't get a shot of it, so I would be more than pleased to have gotten such a fine specimen out in the open like this. A very pleasing image.

A tough shot well executed. Congrats Bryan. I would be very happy too. Nice detail and you use of flash here looks very natural. Well done.