Female Figbirds.

[Ironwood]

The AF is playing up on my Tamron 150-600, so these were manually focused ( on a tripod ) D7100, & Better beamer to add a bit of fill light.

[Isac]

Great shots Ironwood. Lovely detail and colour. #3 for me just because of the pops of red and the the determination of the bird which doesn't seem to mind bending itself out of shape, just to get the prize!

[Ironwood]

Cheers Isac, I like the dynamic feel of that one too. Pity that the focus was a bit behind the Figbirds head. Very hard to adjust on the go manually when they keep moving. I almost didn’t post this one because of the focus.

[Isac]

Glad you did Ironwood

[Ozzie_Traveller]

G'day Brad

All 3 are okay to me ... don't fuss over the fact that an image is less than perfect > truth be known, most of us have such images regularly and we still call 'em "keepers"

Phil

[Ironwood]

Hi Phil. Yes I think we might get wrapped up in getting perfect the things that the camera ussually does for us, when there is much more to producing a great image. Composition, timing etc.

[seaslug]

Yep, #3 for me as well.

[wigz]

The dynamic in #3 makes up for any focus issue, particularly at this size. Well done on getting the focus manually, that couldn't have been easy. Exposure looks good too considering the bright background.

[Ironwood]

Thanks Phil, Greg and Alan. It’s interesting that #3 has the popular vote, despite the focus, I certainly don’t disagree, but I was disappointed when I saw that I had missed the focus a bit.
No one has spotted the second bird yet in #3 ?

[seaslug]

Very subtle and well camouflaged.