Junco over the snow

[Rene Quenneville]

This Junco perched on a small set-up that my son Joël did a few weeks ago. I sat down in the snow and waited, hand holding my camera. I did not have a lot of range with my lens, this is is a big crop (about 50% of the surface). The bird sits a few inches over the snow. The blueish section at the bottom is the OOF snow.
1/1500s
f/6.3
-2/3 EV
300 mm
ISO 400
fill flash -1 EV

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Rene I like the set up Could you have used a convert and tripod? Not sure the AF placement, sharpest area seems to be the wing !!! Excellent !!!

[Phil Liew]

Rene,

Was there any particular reason why the shutter speed was set so fast? Considering a 50% crop there is still plenty of detail on the feathers. Good one.

[Rene Quenneville]

Phil,
light was changing and while I was hand holding being this low to the ground, I wanted to keep the shutter speed at at least 1/1000 s. I was in aperture priority, I guess I could have used f/8 or even f/11.