Back up in the mountains yesterday. This beautiful male gave me a couple of nice looks and I was happy with the OOF sunflowers in the background that seem to compliment the yellow colors in the bird. I cloned out a purple flower in the LRC that I found distracting.
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Technical Details
Is this a composite: No
Olympus EM1-X
300mm f/4 with 1.4x
1/8000, f/5.6, ISO 1600 (I had my ISO up at 1600 as some birds were landing in shady spots, this one landed in the sun)
Oh how sweetly they sing. I see a lot of them in the yard in spring, but not so much as the summer progresses. Have never successfully photographed one so this is a treat. A beauty. I find myself looking at that back leg and wondering what the heck he’s doing, but it’s just an asymmetrical perch pose.
Very good, Keith. I really like the perch and the pose. The out of focus yellow flowers do work well with the bird. There seems to be an out of focus vertical twig or stem along the right side that kind of disrupts the flow of the image.
Hi Keith
The image quality of the Olympus EM1-X and 300mm & F4 is out standing and by the way this photograph of a Yellow Rumped Warbler is very pretty.
Peter
Gorgeous detail on the bird! Maybe darken the perch? The area @Dennis_Plank mentioned could be softened with some low-opacity cloning and I’d remove the half of the OOF flower on the left edge. But small nits for a very nice capture!
