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    I was at Point Pelee the other day and I spotted this Eastern Towhee who usually are not very cooperative but this one was nice enough to jump up on a pile of vines and gave me a couple seconds to take about three quick photos.

    C&C welcome

    Thanks Rodney


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    Rodney:

    Nice to capture these guys. I have some in my backyard, and I haven't been able to get one off the ground for a picture yet. I suspect you have seen it, but they have such a fun feeding technique, with their little litter dance, flying leaf litter, jump back, jump forward.

    Your light was pretty harsh, and I think you did Ok with the exposure. Maybe a few hot pixels. The blacks are blocked on the head and some other areas, but better that then blowing the whites completely.

    The foreground and background are a bit cluttered, which is par for the course for these guys.
    Thanks for sharing. I am trying to figure out a low perch that they might jump up onto to give me a clean background!

    Cheers

    Randy

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    Rodney:

    I had a second so I down loaded your image and played with it a bit. Backing down the contrast 10 points in NX2 did open up the blacks a bit. They were significantly blocked when I checked.

    You might want to play with that a bit. The value may vary depending on your software, but the idea will work.

    Randy

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    Thanks Randy:

    I will try that and your right they are a lot of fun to watch when feeding

    Rodney

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