Black Throat

Gallery: AvianPosted August 6, 2011113 views13 comments

Canon EOS 7D, EF 500mm f/4L IS USM, Aperture Priority @ f/5.6 (1/400 sec), -1 EV, ISO 640, Tripod, JPEG from RAW, Cropped about 20% from Full Frame

Subject: Black-Throated Sunbird

Location: Kaeng Krachan National Park, Phetchaburi, Thailand

One particularly lovely jewel I picked up at Kaeng Krachan!

Critique and comments always welcome :^)

Ashley

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by John Robinson on August 7, 2011 at 5:05 AM

Jewel indeed ! Great stuff.( And the flowers interesting too ! )
JohnR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Rob Drummond on August 7, 2011 at 5:21 AM

Lovely capture Ashley - the flower/fruit is almost as impressive as the sunbird

cheers
Rob

Registered on November 8, 2003, 617 Posts, 8267 Comments

Comment posted by Mia McPherson on August 7, 2011 at 6:34 AM

Ashley,

It is a beautiful bird and the flower is equally as beautiful. Nice & interesting background. Both files though have been overcompressed, the small one is only 52.7 kb and the larger version 148 kb on the server. I can see some loss of detail caused by the over compression. It also looks like there is noise in the darker areas of the plumage, perhaps that was from exposing a touch dark (at -1.0 EV) and bringing up the exposure in post. I'm not sure.

Registered on June 25, 2007, 491 Posts, 12566 Comments

Comment posted by David Hemmings on August 7, 2011 at 10:09 AM

Great species well captured here, did he pop out from behind the leaf at all?

Registered on May 26, 2006, 178 Posts, 1680 Comments

Comment posted by Robert Bunch on August 7, 2011 at 10:30 AM

Nice shot. Cool bird and I really like the flower it's perched on. If it was mine I would crop a little off of the top and right side

Registered on May 18, 2004, 124 Posts, 2503 Comments

Comment posted by KC Choo on August 7, 2011 at 10:57 AM

It's a real shame the bird is behind the leaf. I should go back there again!

Registered on November 15, 2004, 519 Posts, 8278 Comments

Comment posted by Neal Cooper on August 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM

Ashley. Very interesting bird and perch. There seems to be a slight loss in detail in the darks.. Maybe due to the reduction in file size. Still a very mice image. Well done.

Registered on June 3, 2009, 144 Posts, 306 Comments

Comment posted by Terry Sohl on August 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Beautiful! I love the detail in the perch. I too might crop a tad more off the right, but I really like the photo.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 513 Posts, 6889 Comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on August 7, 2011 at 3:11 PM

Hi Ashley.
The bird and the flower are very nice but i do think there is a little problem with the processing but still a super image,

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on August 7, 2011 at 3:22 PM

Ashley, I like the image of the sunbird and the plant it is perched on. I do find the BG to be a little busy, I would consider cropping it tighter to eliminate some of the BG. I do enjoy seeing these birds from SE Asia that you have been posting. Thanks for sharing.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Ray Whitt on August 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM

Love the colorful perch and the background Ashley, bird looks great too. Wonderful image.

Ray

Registered on May 27, 2011, 92 Posts, 2619 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on August 7, 2011 at 10:23 PM

Beautiful detail and color and I really like the setting, Ashley. The eye looks really strange. Is that some kind of artifact of the lighting or is that just the way it is?

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on August 8, 2011 at 4:46 AM

Many thanks for taking the time and for leaving thoughtful comments and suggestions John, Rob, Mia, David, Robert, KC, Neal, Terry, Keith, John, Ray, and Dennis :^)

Mia: I actually asked for more help and advice on the subject of resizing yesterday on a post I made over in the Wildlife forum, to which several kindly responded, so I'm in the precess of figuring this out. Hopefully future posts won't be losing out to over-compression. I'd been shooting at -1 EV at the time to lessen the chances of blowing highlights of leave while shooting another subject when this one suddenly flew in to make an appearance!

David: I only had a few brief moments with this subject and fired off as many shots as I could. Even though I do have another of it on a different perch, showing it's entire body, this picture is far more pleasing. All being well, I'll have better opportunities with this handsome bird in months ahead :^)

Robert, Terry, John: I agree, cropping a little more from the top and RH side would have been a better choice, thanks for the suggestion :^)

Dennis: May indeed have been a tad overzealous when it came to working that eye, well spotted ;^)

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments