Fawn-breasted Tanager pigging out


Posted by Chris Fagyal on Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:37 pm

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This is an older image from last year I dug up from my trip to Ecuador. It was an absolutely fabulous trip and this was one of the highlights of the last day. If anyone has ever thought of going to Ecuador but hasn't taken the plunge...GO! And contact me if you want to know some great places to stay and great places to go. I am going back in May around memorial day. Fawn-breasted Tanagers are generally pretty shy tanagers, but the tree it is feeding on was loaded with its absolute favorite fruit, thus it was right out in the open and I was able to get lots of decent shots. I have learned a lot since I took this shot some 9 months ago, and there are plenty of areas the photo could be improved upon i'm sure. I'm posting it because I thought it was a fairly reasonable shot of the species and I *know* no one has posted one before here :D

This was taken with my old Nikon gear, Nikon d100 + Nikon 300mm f/4. No exif available right now but i'm guessing it was around f/5.6 @ 1/40th of a sec or so as this was taken pretty close to dusk and the skies were darkening.
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by Campbell on Fri Aug 22, 2003 4:40 pm
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The lite blue on the head and the red eye...excellent. I like the composition
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by Richard on Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:35 pm
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Chris,

Excellent! Looks like there might be a little motion blur at the beak, but at that shutter speed I would expect more. The colors are outstanding and love the perch. Very nice!
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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Aug 22, 2003 6:41 pm
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What a gorgeous birdie! Nice shot.
 

by Jim Urbach on Fri Aug 22, 2003 7:54 pm
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Chris,

One neat looking bird. Love the red eye.

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by Rich S on Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:39 am
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Colors, perch and bird are all wonderful. Love the size of the seed in the mouth. Will second your comments on Ecuador - was there this summer - (and will send you an e-mail asking where you were), but I didn't see any of these little guys.

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by Greg Downing on Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:59 am
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Very nice and I love the morsel! I wish the background was cleaner, but we take what we are given and you did a fine job with this one!!

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by Juli Wilcox on Sat Aug 23, 2003 9:53 pm
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Oh! How interesting! Another new bird---lovely! Chris, is the image cropped or could the ISO have been pushed to 400 or more? There is a bit of graininess present. It's not objectionable for web-posting but if you are preparing to print, you might want to investigate an alternative method for blurring the BG.
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by matt kuchta on Sat Aug 23, 2003 11:33 pm
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If grain was an issue, you could probably get away with a high pass sharpening. Grain not too bad for me, but it does seem a touch soft.

Still, this is a neat pose, and I really like the seed in its mouth.
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by Chris Fagyal on Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:03 pm
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Juli,

The ISO was probably 320 or 400 (Nikon D100), and I was still under pretty low light. I agree it is somewhat soft, as well as somewhat grainy. I was a *very* new inexperienced photographer when I went to Ecuador last November, and as a result probably 98% of the images I took were not very good. In hindsight I looked back on my images last week and most of them were pretty shoddy :) I posted this because I thought it was at least a reasonable shot of a bird I knew no one had ever posted before. I can't wait to go back next year to REALLY do photography when I will have 2 years worth of it under my belt and should be able to produce some legitimate results :)
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