Spotted Towhee
by Dennis Plank
This guy's been coming around to the feeding station at my blind all spring, but the shot's I've gotten up to now have been pretty blah looking. I finally caught him with a pretty fair head turn and some tension in his posture this morning. Since these are large relative to finches and warblers and have a long tail, I'm always having trouble fitting them in the frame, even with a zoom (I usually like to shoot first to get something, then zoom). In this case, that meant I had to add canvas on the top and right to give him a little room.
7Dii, Sigma 150-600 C @ 531 mm, tripod with ballhead and Sidekick, f/8, 1/160, iso 2000, aperture priority, pattern metering, -1/3 EV. Processed in LR & PS CC. With the added canvas, it's just slightly over 6000x4000 pixels. I cloned out some drip tubing and a zip tie that are used for my pond drip. Taken this morning at 7:43 am under cloudy skies.
Your comments and critiques are always apprecieated.
Thanks for taking a look,
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