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Little parula
(mander.xyz)
Sometimes warblers don't care how close you are. This one was probably ten feet away. They are truly smol, and I like to crop my photos.
Honduras, April 2023
Great shot! With that much resolution you could probably crop in a little tighter. Filling the frame with more of your subject will help emphasize how small the bird really is compared to the branch. Plus, more birb is always better.
I like to leave some habitat because I find it adds interest and complexity to a photo. Plus, sometimes the birb no longer appears smol if so focused in the photo! I've gotten more comfortable with even more distant shots of birbs, too--sometimes I can make raptors look illegally smol.
Totally fair! I did a pretty extreme crop on a spider photo I took a few years back, and that started my "fill the frame with the subject" mentality. With respect to the rule of thirds of course. ๐
I definitely have my fair share of close crops, especially herps! I also posted a close crop (because it was just that close) of a brown-capped rosy finch to the wildlife photography community today too.