Just A Back Yard Gold Finch

[Ed Cordes]

Activity at my feeder has been pretty good the past few weeks. I happen to like gold finches a lot. I know they are not exotic, but to me they are beautiful and a lot of fun to watch.

1DMK2 with 500 and 1.4 TC. Evaluative metering at ISO 500 with EV - 2/3 and fill flash with BB at EV - 1 2/3. F 5.6 and 1/200. Cropped vertical from horizontal. It was very overcast with intermittent rain.

Thanks for looking. C&C most welcome.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

A touch tight in the LRC and I wonder if a little more DOF would have been achievable? Just to see both feet sharp. But maybe not. Great colors and HA. THanks for sharing Ed.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Agree with Akos, one thing I'd point out is that it is so easy to burn the yellows (in fact reds-in-the-yellow)
and you did great job here.

[Aidan Briggs]

As mentioned more DOF and room would be nice. I wish the goldfinch was in a more upright pose, then you wouldn't have to worry about the tail being so close to the edge of the frame.