Black-and-white Warbler

Gallery: AvianPosted April 4, 20044,205 views28 comments

Here a Black-and-white singing on territory this morning at Scioto Trail State Forest in Ross County, Ohio. I did have my flash set up, but when he started to sing I fired as many frames as possible while his mouth was open, and the flash couldn't recycle fast enough for all of them even with my Quantum Turbo. This is the frame with the sharpest bills, but the flash didn't fire here. The ones with flash don't look a whole lot different, though.

Canon 10D
600IS + 1.4x

Comments

28 comments

Comment posted by Ron Holland on April 4, 2004 at 12:25 AM

The Black and White is one of my favorite warblers and this guy is singing his heart out! You captured the perfect instant. I don't see anything that would have been improved with the flash. This is great as is! Good job!

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Comment posted by Milo Burcham on April 4, 2004 at 12:26 AM

WOW, this is really, really really, really, really, really, really nice. The perch is great and I really (really) like the complimentary background color. You caught the open bill just right as well.

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Comment posted by James Dixon on April 4, 2004 at 12:34 AM

May I just say WOW! Best one I've seen ever. Totally, seriously. Congrats.

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Comment posted by Brian E. Small on April 4, 2004 at 1:26 AM

Quite simply, warbler photography gets no better than this IMHO............outstanding image Bob!

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Comment posted by Jim Zipp on April 4, 2004 at 7:41 AM

Awsome shot Bob!

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Comment posted by Bob Steele on April 4, 2004 at 8:28 AM

EXCELLENT in every way!!!

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Comment posted by Peter Wallack on April 4, 2004 at 8:47 AM

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Comment posted by Malcolm Hunt on April 4, 2004 at 9:05 AM

All of the above X2!!!. Amazing to get such a clean background and a Black and White aswell, too much

. What ISO was this captured on?
Malcolm Hunt

Registered on November 1, 2003, 24 Posts, 68 Comments

Comment posted by Chris Davidson on April 4, 2004 at 10:34 AM

Simply gorgeous Bob! Jim Z. pretty much summed this up with these few words, "Awsome shot Bob!"
Having the tail on the open side of the perch and catching this one with the bill open so wide, add so much for me.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 38 Posts, 815 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on April 4, 2004 at 10:36 AM

A very clean look at this nice warbler. I'd like to see one of the frames with fill to compare the effects - can you provide a link to one?

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Comment posted by Garth McElroy on April 4, 2004 at 10:59 AM

Sweet!

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Comment posted by Kenneth Kijewski on April 4, 2004 at 11:01 AM

Top notch capture

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Comment posted by William H Fissell on April 4, 2004 at 11:50 AM

what they said.... just send these guys north, will ya?!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 39 Posts, 342 Comments

Comment posted by Bruce Sherman on April 4, 2004 at 1:37 PM

Bob,
Ditto on what everyone else has already said. Absolutely terrific.

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Comment posted by Jay Barnes on April 4, 2004 at 2:57 PM

Nice work, Bob. This one's a real winner!

Registered on November 1, 2003, 231 Posts, 1153 Comments

Comment posted by Robert Royse on April 4, 2004 at 3:00 PM

Thanks for all the comments!

Malcom, this was with ISO200 at 1/250 sec at f5.6.

Richard, I said the effects of the flash were negligible, and they are. It wouldn't be worth posting both side by side since the processing of the RAW files were a bit different. With a slide you'd see a bigger difference between the two, and because of the overcast, neither would look very good with film.

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Comment posted by Juza on April 4, 2004 at 3:56 PM

Hi Bob,
oustanding photo, I echo all the positive comments

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Comment posted by Vic Harris on April 4, 2004 at 8:52 PM

Beautiful photo, Bob. There's enough life in the eye as is...who needs flash!

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Comment posted by Lee Daniels on April 5, 2004 at 10:07 AM

Incredibly alive - just terrific!

Registered on December 31, 2003, 115 Posts, 1657 Comments

Comment posted by Paula Graham on April 5, 2004 at 2:05 PM

Fantastic, super shot.

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Comment posted by Martin Creasser on April 5, 2004 at 4:08 PM

Stunning shot Bob.

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Comment posted by Mike Danzenbaker on April 5, 2004 at 5:23 PM

I'll ditto what everyone else has said, including the sentiment that warbler photography doesn't get any better than this, at least not in any way I can visualize.

What is the BG by the way?

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Comment posted by Ruediger Merz on April 5, 2004 at 7:05 PM

Bob, you did a great job on this. I like it more with natural light.
The flash almost always brings a second disturbing catch light in the eyes, which
makes an image look artificial, IMHO.

Styx

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Comment posted by Robert Royse on April 5, 2004 at 11:46 PM

Mike, the background is distant leafless trees in an oak/hickory forest.

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Comment posted by Justin on April 12, 2004 at 4:58 AM

Excellent shot.I like everything about this one.

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Comment posted by Colin Smale on June 21, 2005 at 3:56 AM

Just looking back over past posts, wow, this really jumps out at you even when seen as a thumbnail. What a fantastic bird and what a fantastic shot. Great, absolutely great.

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Comment posted by LG Price on May 6, 2006 at 2:27 PM

doesn't get much better! Hope I can catch one of these guys.

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Comment posted by W. Tracy Parnell on June 26, 2006 at 5:04 PM

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