House Finch

The same bird I posted a few days ago under the "Tiny Tim" title.  Several people mentioned that a tighter crop might have been warranted on that image.  Given the pose, I'm afraid I didn't agree with them, but with this pose I did crop it a bit tighter, because the bird is posed vertically and doesn't seem to have a need to have a lot of room to move into.  I chose the square format because I wanted to keep that little patch of lichen on the branch.

7D2, Sigma 150-600mm C @ 562mm, hand held, f/8, 1/200, iso 1250, aperture priority, pattern metering.  Processed in LR5 & CS6.  Cropped to a square format, final size just under 11 Mpixels.  Taken December 16th at 9:38 AM.

I appreciate your comments on the last couple of posts and look forward to your input on this one.

Thanks,