Golden-Crowned Kinglet

[gnevets88]

I'm a little disappointed that this shot is so soft, but I guess I shouldn't beat myself up because these little guys are so hard to shoot. The Bigma AF can hardly keep up!
http://static.flickr.com/32/52796756_281dccbab5_o.jpg
Canon D. Rebel
Sigma 50-500
420EX flash w/ Better Beamer

[CyberDyneSystems]

Very NICE! Love the detail in the colorations you got,. on the back and head.

Think about cropping in a little .. (well a lot) on the left hand side,. take off more than half of what's there between the edge and the bird,. then trim just a tad off the right hand side ( don't cut into the top leaf, leave it whole) to make it all more "portrait"

I think that might work well.

[gnevets88]

Very NICE! Love the detail in the colorations you got,. on the back and head.

Think about cropping in a little .. (well a lot) on the left hand side,. take off more than half of what's there between the edge and the bird,. then trim just a tad off the right hand side ( don't cut into the top leaf, leave it whole) to make it all more "portrait"

I think that might work well.
Thanks for your suggestions! I would LOVE to crop this, but I'm trying to hide a dirty little secret. It's slightly OOF thanks to my Sigma 50-500's slow AF.

[gmaize]

I like it. Mostly because it's not static. The colorations are excellent too.

--gmaize

[dancad]

Nice shot of a hard to capture species. For small and very active subjects such as this I find that manually focussing is faster and more acurate than AF. After practicing for a while I found myself using MF almost exclusively.

[Stephen Stephen]

Nice capture of a cute bird.