Spotted Flycatcher

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Posted by Nigel Blake on July 10, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa striata, one of very many images of this bird taken today. I really want it with a Butterfly, today it had a Small Skipper and 2 Comma, all three times it perched with its back to me and would not turn around.... so I'll be back again tomorrow!

2009:07:10 14:39:38
Canon EOS1DsMkIII 600mm & 1.4X (840mm)
Subject dist: 6.4m
1/250 sec, f/8
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 250
AF mode: One-shot AF
Drive: Continuous (high)
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 21.6MB
Image size: 3744 x 5616
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: 0
Contrast: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
CFn III-13: AF point

RAW convesion DPP, all other PP (resize, levels and sharpen) Adobe CS3

Posted by Paul Ashton on July 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM

Well composed, focused and exposed. A bird I have yet to photograph. Splendid

Posted by Austin Thomas on July 10, 2009 at 3:50 PM

Nice capture Nigel,

I am sure you will get the image you are after, hopefully tomorrow.

Cheers

Austin

Posted by Craig Jones on July 11, 2009 at 6:54 AM

Like the portrait format here works very well,nice light and detail

Posted by Ben Simmonds on July 12, 2009 at 5:00 PM

theres not much to crit, maybe a little bright but well handled, love the blue bug he has in beak

Posted by Ian Haskell on July 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM

A nice flycatcher shot, lower background colours are attracting my eye but a minor nit (could be my screen).

Ian

Posted by Justin on July 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM

That's a cracker Nigel and all the more interesting thanks to the colourful prey.