Eastern Towhee

[Karl Egressy]

At Pinery you can hear them everywhere no matter which trail you are on.
The light was coming from the side. I compensated for, by using fill flash.
As a result of the direction of the natural light, there was a white halo around the right hand side of the head.
I got rid of that, so people won't think it was the result of sharpening.
Also, there was a bright spot at the buttom left corner that I replaced with green.
Thanks for coming.


EOS-1D Mark IV
Manual setting
Canon 500 f4.0 L IS plus 1.4 TC
Shutter Speed 1/200 sec
Aperture f/7.1
ISO 640

[PhilCook]

Nicely perched, some detail showing in the whites so it looks like the fill flash worked well, I like the side lighting showing the fine feathers on the neck as well, nothing not to like about this one.

[Norm Dulak]

Nice subject, pose, perch, background and composition. My preference would be to crop a little off the bottom and to add a bit of canvass at the top, but it's very nice as is.

[gail bisson]

Nice use of fill flash. Great perch and BG and HA.
Very nice BOAS image!
Gail

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Love the exposure, pose and the flash work, Karl. Perch, comp, bg - all very good.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome! I love this species, seen it a few times, but never photogrpahed it properly. Great pose, perch, background. A bit of a magenta cast is easily corrected...this time using "Selective Color" and removing the magentas from the "Neutrals".

[dankearl]

Really nice Karl, great perch and nice PP work.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Fine perch and BG. Nice light and fill as well. Looks much better with the magenta cast gone.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Love the repost by Daniel . With the cast removed ...looks nice .

[Dave Leroy]

A little more orangie than the rusty color of our Spotted Towhee. Very well done and good use of flash. Nice to see such a nice clean shot.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and details ditto on magenta cast which Dan removed

[rajojomanik]

Nice BG, pose and perch.

Daniel's version works well for me.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Karl, I like the placement and pose, together with the variety of colours this fellow has. Lovely soft BG too. I like what Dan has done to correct the magenta cast.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Karl, excellent shot. agree with Dan's repost. Nice head turn , details and BG. beautiful indeed. Did you get one with bird looking a tad bit down?

[Karl Egressy]

Awesome! I love this species, seen it a few times, but never photogrpahed it properly. Great pose, perch, background. A bit of a magenta cast is easily corrected...this time using "Selective Color" and removing the magentas from the "Neutrals".

Thanks Daniel. The repost looks pretty good. Such a big difference!!!
I'll try it next time the way you did it.

[Karl Egressy]

Karl, excellent shot. agree with Dan's repost. Nice head turn , details and BG. beautiful indeed. Did you get one with bird looking a tad bit down?

Thanks Kaustubh.
I would say this has been the best as per my taste.
I have a few at eye level very close, but the background is not clean.
Others sing but against a blue background.

[Satish Ranadive]

Very sweet image. Loved the pose,perch,lights and bg...Lovely color eye too.