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High-key Eastern Kingbird.
A bit of a grab shot as I was walking back to my car after an outing in some local fields when this kingbird landed on a low evergreen. Took a couple of frames, checked the histogram (which was too dark), quickly dialed-in some light while hoping the subject would stay in place (it did) and fired off a couple more before it flew off. Cropped a bit top and left, but otherwise this is original vertical composition.
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/7.1, ISO 800, natural light, handheld, deepened the blacks and midtones, darkened the pupil.