40D, EF 70-200 F4IS
F8, 1/200 sec, ISO 400
Manual mode, shot this in the garden, tripod, home made blind at ground level, cleaned some spots in the BG.
Lovely colors, and well exposed on the bird. Looks from the EXIF that it would have been hard to get much more DOF; you must have been very close. But it's sharp where it counts.
Bill, I would liked to have more DOF, did not set to F9, F10 because wanted to keep the SS at 1/200, the bird was moving around searching for seeds dropped from feeder. And yes, with this lens I have to be very close to the birds, trying to avoid heavy croped images.
Thanks for comments.
I love these cold wintery photographs. Make the weather down here a little more bearable:cool:
A cute bird with lovely earthy colours and a sweet little crest. I like the way the bird appears to be casually looking at you.
The composition is very pleasing. I agree more DOF would have been nice but as you say it was not an option.
Beautiful.