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Yellow-rump Looking Up<\/p><\/div>\n

Shooting Warblers in the fall in Cape May New Jersey is just too easy. No, of course, I take that back. Shooting warblers, anysmall active bird for that matter, anywhere, anytime, is never easy<\/em>…but it is less hard in Cape May in the fall, when the warblers are many and fueling for the\u00a0Delaware\u00a0Bay crossing is most on their minds.<\/p>\n

This bird was one of many that used this branch for a momentary perch as it foraged through some brushy trees behind the Hawk Watch platform at Cape May Point State Park. I could prefocus on the perch, but I had to rely on the auto-focus assist on the Zeiss PhotoScope to\u00a0tweak\u00a0focus as the bird was in all but constant motion.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about the out of focus branch that threatens to obscure the bird (it did in the next second as the bird moved further up the branch). I could clone it out, but in a way, it adds to the reality of the shot, and is certainly a more accurate record of the bird in its habitat, and the challenges of photographing it.<\/p>\n

Zeiss PhotoScope 85FL at about 40x (1600mm equivalent field of view). 1\/800th sec. @ ISO 100. Metered at about f5.2.<\/p>\n

Light processing in Lightroom. Added Clarity and Sharpen Landscape preset. Blackpoint slightly right.<\/p>\n

From Zeiss PhotoScope 85FL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, just for interest sake (and to prove I can <\/em>do it), here is the same image without the branch in the foreground…worked in PhotoShop Elements 7.0.<\/p>\n

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Looking Up without branch<\/p><\/div>\n

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