Purple Finch-NH

I guess New Hampshire is already getting its share of attention right now, but this was about the last one I could fill in.  We used to get quite a few of the red finches (House, Cassin's and Purple) around here, particularly in the winter, but conditions seem to have changed and I haven't seen many lately.  I had to dig way back in my files to find one of these.  I posted another pose from the same session not long after I took it, but I'd never processed this one.

1D4, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4 TC, Jobu gimbal on Gitzo legs, f/10, 1/2000, iso 1000, aperture priority, pattern metering, -2/3 EV (I was shooting Goldfinches at the time and those yellows blow our if you don't compensate).  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 6.25 MP before resizing.  I started with a 4x5 crop but it had too much empty space on the right, so I changed to the square.  Taken in our back yard at 7:35 pm on July 10th, 2011.

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