Willow Flycatcher

Gallery: AvianPosted June 28, 201816,732 views8 comments

I suspect this is the same bird I posted images of last year, since it's acting the same. It comes to the little pond in front of my blind and dives into the pond and almost bounces out and back to a perch (usually not quite the same place it left). I'm going to try a trigger system to see if I can catch it arriving at or leaving the water, but it's still a cool way of taking a bath.

7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 500 mm, tripod with ballhead and Sidekick, f/8, 1/640, iso 2500, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 14.4 MP. Taken today at 3:26 pm under cloudy skies.

Your comments and critiques are always appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on June 29, 2018 at 2:10 AM

The Sweet "inquisitive" pose here is very alluring. Bird's colours perfectly with the red perch and great green BG.
Diagonal perch is excelellent
Love it!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on June 29, 2018 at 10:23 AM

You caught a nice pose and the detail is excellent. Like the perch and background.

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Comment posted by David Bogener on June 30, 2018 at 3:17 PM

Well composed with excellent detail. I like the soft light, diagonal perch and nice head turn. Well done.

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on June 30, 2018 at 3:42 PM

Hi Dennis
Really nice detail and low noise for ISO of 2500. How was the Sidekick used to get that soft fill lighting?
Peter

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 30, 2018 at 6:30 PM

Peter asked: "How was the Sidekick used to get that soft fill lighting?"

It wasn't, Peter. The soft lightin was just due to the cloudy day and some processing to add a little light. The sidekick is just a gizmo that attaches to a ball head to make it into a gimbal mount. It provides more versatility than a stand alone gimbal and doesn't weigh much. It's plenty rigid for the camera/lens combination I'm using.

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Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on July 1, 2018 at 10:57 AM

Hi Dennis,

Very nice. The pose and composition make for a very pleasing image. Well done. The bird is very gray compared to the color of willow flycatchers found around here in Michigan. Have you heard this one call?.....................Jim

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 2, 2018 at 7:51 PM

That's a beauty Dennis, one of the better shots of an empidonax flycatchers that I have seen. Great eye contact and detail. devil

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Comment posted by Allen Brooks on July 7, 2018 at 10:18 AM

Congrats on weekly pick. Superb detail in the flycatcher against a nice background.

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