House finch

Gallery: AvianPosted February 24, 2015200 views4 comments

Taken at the Sugar Grove Nature Center in central Illinois. There were several of these around the building waiting their turn at the feeders. Very overcast and flat light. Also gusting winds.

Canon PS SX60
1/200 @ F-6.5 ISO 640
Canon 3.8-247 @ 247mm
HH

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4 comments

Comment posted by Scott Frye on February 24, 2015 at 10:05 PM

Bird stands out nicely against the BG -- thinking that more Fstop would have helped keeping focus beak to tail

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on February 25, 2015 at 9:42 AM

Attractive little guy. The light you had to deal with didn't help you here. It looks a bit flat and it is also soft. There are some processing things you could do to make it better, but to be honest, the capture you obtained doesn't give you much to work with.

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Comment posted by Steve Thompson on February 25, 2015 at 10:36 AM

Nice comp and pose from the Finch. It's not as sharp as some of your recent images. Probably because of the low flat light you had to work with.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on February 26, 2015 at 1:30 PM

Nice species, however the image looks rather soft. Maybe 1/200s was not enough with the gusting winds ? Cheers, Hans

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