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Very nice! Lovely color and lighting on he bird. It would be interesting to see a version with some crop from the left, to remove the short, bright OOF branch. You should also be able to burn down the larger bright OOF branch, which would keep attention on the bird more. Bright sun on a busy setting of branches is a difficult situation.
Some of the excellent images in Avian are gotten with calls sometimes -- Daniel Cadeaux has occasionally mentioned the technique. I think the only concern is not to significantly disturb the bird's natural behavior.
What was the lens? It's always better to fill the frame at capture rather than crop, but I realize that's a lot easier to say than to do.
Much as I'm enjoying exploring the possibilities with the 7D2, the image quality has some compromises and does suffer above about ISO 800 and with crops. Critically good autofocus will help keep quality up, and that camera is capable of that. The body can also be microadjusted to different lenses, and it can be done with and without teleconverters and at both ends of a zoom range.
Last edited by Diane Miller; 01-07-2015 at 10:26 AM.
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thanks for the comments, Diane. It was my Canon 100-400 L lens. I am looking at the new 400 f/4. I see no way to edit a post, as I remembered right away that I forgot the lens type. I agree about ISO on the 7D 2, I had been shooting in shadows earlier and forgot to change ISO for new conditions :( .
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In the lower right of the message window there is an Edit button, but I think it's only good for a few hours after the post.
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That's a great catch! I agree with cropping or cloning to remove that one OOF branch, it is weird that my eye is drawn to that! I really like the perch.
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I did clone out some distracting branches and see what you mean about that one the bird seems to be looking right at, will clean it up in the original....thanks
