Blue-faced Honeyeater & repost

Gallery: AvianPosted November 17, 2013103 views9 comments

Another Honeyeater (they have lots!). I liked everything about this image but the stick in front, and I just couldn't figure out how to remove it without messing with the bird. I did remove one stick that added a line contrary to all the others.

7D, 300mm f4 + 1.4TC, handheld, f8, 1/400, Av mode with no compensation, iso 640. Processed in CS6 and cropped to 8.3MP. Taken near Mossman, Queensland at 1:02 pm on October 18th.

Your comments and criticisms are most appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on November 17, 2013 at 7:44 PM

Ignoring the stick, the detail, colors and sharpness are right on. A striking bird. The BG works well. Thanks for sharing.

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

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on November 17, 2013 at 10:34 PM

Lovely bird and BG. A bit of an awkward pose, and that stick is troublesome, but overall a very nice image.
A careful touch with the clone tool should make it fairly easy to remove that errant branch.
Sandy

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on November 18, 2013 at 6:13 AM

Nice setting Dennis. For an attractively coloured bird they often strike almost sinister poses

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

Comment posted by Charles Gangas on November 18, 2013 at 8:19 AM

Neat and very colorful bird Dennis. I like the attentive pose and the clean background. The stick is a bit distracting, but as Sandy mentioned it could be removed with some careful cropping.

Registered on August 12, 2009, 544 Posts, 2414 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on November 18, 2013 at 1:44 PM

Thanks for the urging to clone out that extra twig. Here's a repost with my attempt at it.

Thanks,

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on November 18, 2013 at 4:01 PM

Interesting bird well captured with lovely background. The cloned version looks good.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on November 18, 2013 at 7:14 PM

Really cool bird, and a unique looking pose. Nice details.The re-post is much more pleasing to view without that wayward branch, nice cloning work.

Sweet Photo Dennis!

Registered on October 28, 2004, 222 Posts, 6683 Comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on November 18, 2013 at 8:04 PM

I vastly prefer the version with the cloned stick, which version is well caught, btw. Now if you could just remove the OOF shrubbery in the ULHC...

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Comment posted by Robert Bunch on November 19, 2013 at 12:36 PM

Neat looking bird. I like the blue eye patch and the pose and the upward turn of the head.Removal of the stick definitely helps.

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