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    Default Daddy Long-legs and A Juicy Worm On The Menu.

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    I've been fortunate to find many active nests this year, and have had many good opportunities with the adult birds coming in with food. Here's another, a bonus natural cavity House Wren nest. I never did see the young fledge, but an acquaintance of mine witnessed six of them leave the nest a couple of days after this was taken.

    Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/320s., f/4, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, about 80% FF, toned down the birch bark via burn tool. In hindsight I should have blended away the BG line near the tail...

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    Really like the facial expression on the bird, and the pose...The bark is pretty cool with the 'jagged' edge. You did well to get the bird in focus at 1/320...The prey adds but even without it, it would still be a great image.

    Will

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    Very nice image like everything about it. I would have gone vertical with frame.

    TFS

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    Daniel, you produce some of the sharpest images with that gear. Interesting all the marks on the bark.

    More importantly, cool setting perched in the hole there and +2 for double dinner in the beak. Love to have more focus on the back end but you couldn't afford it with the light.

    I don't mind the longer crop here, a nice change. It appears a non-standard ratio? Maybe could shift right and cut a touch off the left side but ok for me as is.

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    terrific interest w the birch and the bugs. Nice and sharp where it counts but something is funky mid back to tail. It looks like someone else's feather is lodged just above the leg. I also like the faint scratch marks on the paper birch. Would like to see this vertical. I had wrens nesting in the yard and was so excited to hear all of the vocalizations after they were born. Then the next day it was quiet, no parents, next day same thing. I took a ladder and checked the box and was saddened to find seven chicks dead. Cleaned the box and buried them. About two weeks later another wren couple or maybe the same parents are nesting.

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    Thanks guys! I took many, many verticals of this nest so I've got that covered. As for the tail area that Ann mentions. I see it. It's in the raw file as well. I'm thinking that the wren moved ever so slightly in the rear area, causing some sort of ghosting effect. Whatever the case, that should be an easy fix with the clone stamp.

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    The bug is great and the focus is all the matters in this. Nice setting as well.
    Dan Kearl

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    All has been said. Love this canvas with spot on framing and SH right where it needs to be. TFS

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    Nothing to add on my end either. Late to the party but it was a good one (party). TFS Daniel.

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    Hi Dan, perfect timing and great HA, beak with insect is the icing.

    Personally I would 'burn' or use a channel layer a bit more on the Birch and have more of the 'hole' in shadow, adds a bit more to the separation. Look forward to more in the series Dan.

    Shooting in the format you have done, both in vertical & landscape is the way to go to retain IQ and not crop.

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    I love the head/beak/prey.
    I too, had a similar issue with "ghosting" on the Canada warbler I posted a while back. I decided it had to be a bit of motion blur.
    Too bad you didn't have the light to boost SS and aperture.
    But the prey and the pop of green trumps most issues,
    Gail

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