Late Summer Goldfinch

The juvenile American Goldfinches have been foraging in the Anise Hyssop of late and I managed to get out Monday morning for a shoot. The bed that's planted with these is unfortunately in the shadow of a neighbor's fir tree from about 1/2 an hour after sunrise until the sun is too high for good photography, but the sun was filtered by some nice fog which reduced the contrast with the bg to a point I thought worked fairly well. I left part of the old post in on the left side of the frame because I liked the lines of it and it didn't seem to distract from the bird. I cloned out a couple of oof bloom stems that I found distracting.

1Div, 500mm f4 ISL + 2.0TC, Jobu Gimbal on RRS legs, f8, 1/160, iso 640, aperture priority and pattern metering. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 9.5MP from the original 16. Taken August 11th at 7:02 am.

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