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Tiny Tim...

by Dennis Plank

Gallery: AvianPosted December 21, 2015112 views4 comments
...In the spirit of the season and in recognition of the deformity on one toe of this House Finch's left foot.  Another image from my session in the blind last Wednesday.  I loved the subtle color variations in the plumage of this individual.  We used to have a lot of these around in the winter, but the last few years we've only had a few of any of the reddish finch species.

7D2, Sigma 150-600 C @ 562mm, hand held braced against blind wall, f/8, 1/200, iso 1250, aperture priority, pattern metering.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to 16.6 Mpixels.  Taken December 16th at 9:38 am.

All comments are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks,

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 22, 2015 at 7:49 AM
Dennis,

like on the images before, I like the moody scene of the image, meaning the soft light and the wet perch. You managed to get an technically fine image, meaning sharpness and exposure are good. Since you have cropped already I would consider a vertical, maybe 3:4 in such a way that the fir branch at the left is eliminated. You will still have suficient pixel for a high quality image enlightened
Registered on January 27, 2004, 494 Posts, 4021 Comments
Comment posted by Mike Ramy on December 22, 2015 at 10:23 AM
Just Lovely Dennis,
I like this image as posted, the perch is outstanding and the detail superb with a nice background to set it all off.
Your next post will be number one thousand which will officially make you one of the 'Old Timers' of NPN.
Here's to You Old Timer . . .  devil
Registered on June 16, 2012, 567 Posts, 2809 Comments
Comment posted by Steve Thompson on December 23, 2015 at 3:09 PM
Like this a lot Dennis. Pose, perch and background all came together to make a great image. The wet perch and the pine needles add a lot. But......shouldn't there be snow on the perch? enlightened (It's 61 degrees in IL right now.)  devil  Merry Christmas!
Registered on August 7, 2014, 125 Posts, 2319 Comments
Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on December 23, 2015 at 8:41 PM
Nice Christmas shot, Dennis. 

Looks like avian pox. Ron Dudley did a blog post on it a while ago. The post and the comments give a pretty good picture (sorry) of the problem.
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