California Towhee

Gallery: AvianPosted December 26, 201064 views4 comments

I had my 7D checked out by Canon and they repaired the focus. There was a problem and I pretty sure they have fixed it. Now to work on the person behind the camera. My wife joined me on a trip to Bolsa Chica and brought some good luck. This fellow posed for me for about three minutes and I got some nice poses. I like this head turn the best. Crop shows 50% of original.

Comments are appreciated.

12-24-10 9:15a.m.
Canon 7D
300 2.8L w/ 1.4x
420mm
Exp Comp -1/3
f/7.1
1/1250
ISO 250
Tripod

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on December 26, 2010 at 5:22 PM

Looks like the image is nice and sharp. Nice bird as well. The image appears to be quite a bit underexposed. I see from your EXIF info that you were at -1/3. Shooting into a blue sky with a dark bird will require positive exposure compensation to properly expose the bird. Probably at least +1 for a shot like this, and maybe more.

Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments

Comment posted by Sally King on December 26, 2010 at 10:26 PM

I too like the headturn very much. It does appear a bit underexposed to me. I love the perch too. Flowers even at this time of year? Very nice.

Registered on December 2, 2008, 416 Posts, 4450 Comments

Comment posted by Steve Balke on December 26, 2010 at 10:41 PM

Outstanding head turn, catchlight. Nice pose. Bit of a steep angle but o.k. A bit underexposed as previously mentioned. You could try some more post processing to improve that aspect but you need to watch for noise.

Registered on June 18, 2009, 229 Posts, 2915 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on December 27, 2010 at 3:33 PM

I also like everything about the shot, but I also agree that it is dark, but I would think that you could fix that pretty easily in post processing.

Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments