Eastern Yellow Robin

Nice shot Darryl. Nice details and very nice eye contact.

Great light, good detail, sharpness and clean bg ...
Nicely done Darryl!

I love the light from the side. He's very beautiful. Maybe a little more room all around, just a little. Sweet

Excellent shot Darryl.

One of Australia's cutest birds IMO.

I like this one except for the hot area on the chest.

Another new species for me - nice shot!

Daryl,

This is a nice, sharp image of a beautiful bird. Well done.

I'm at a loss as to why I have no sharpness in the tail though. Focus area is on the belly/chest area which from what I can tell is probably around about the same distance to the eye. The day before I was using F8 and again no tail sharpness, so for this shot I used F10. Still no sharpness in the tail. All I can think of is that the bird had quite an active tail.

Mike I tried to reduce the hotness with NC. I'll have to have a play again as I'm sure all the detail is still there. The sun pretty much came bursting through the trees in the swamp and hit him right on the chest. About 5seconds before a cloud was over the sun diffusing

Mike, they are a very cute little bird and even cuter when they're inquisitive. I love it how they'll come and hang off a branch to check out what you're doing.

For me it seems that I have to be up around f11 to have a chance of getting tails infocus This is touching. I'd opt for just a little more room around him. Kim used to do all her shots with the 1ds(11mp) and her 500 without the teleconverter and zoom in, in photoshop. Because if you print a picture like this, it's probably one that you wouldn't blow up large, being that its a small bird and it just wouldn't look right. Me on the other hand, would be using my 600 and the 1.4X, and although I would always get the tight in shot and not have to do a photoshop zoom, the bird would never all be in focus. Like I said you can zoom in on these little guys with plenty of resolution to spare.

Lovely shot of a really lovely bird!

:) How sweet this little precious one is. Lovely! ! ! San Diego Deb

Pleverington, I probably chopped off 15% of space around the bird so I still have a bit to play with.
Unfortunately I don't have a 1DS and use a D70 which is 6MP. With a D2X, 1DS (MKI or MKII) or even a 1D MKII you have a bit more pixels to play around with and can have the luxary of not using a TC and just cropping in. Earlier in May I posted the same species of bird (possibly part of the same family) on a barbwire fence taken with the 70-200VR + TC1.7. Now I tried to crop in but the pixels just weren't there and so I didn't have any of the detail as I did with this picture.