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<\/p>\nIt isn’t often that I’m equally pleased with both the technical aspects and the aesthetic appeal of one of my images but this is one of those times.<\/p>\n
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1\/3200, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The sparrow was beautifully framed by juniper three days ago in the mountains of the west desert. I had nice light on the entire bird, the sparrow is sharp except for the end of the tail and I have a pleasing and clean background so the bird really stands out against all of that green. A nice turn of the head and a resulting catch light in the eye topped it all off<\/p>\n My only concern about the image is that the colors seem slightly intense to me. I almost never add saturation or adjust color tones in my photos and I didn’t this time. In fact I actually considered desaturating the image slightly but in the end I left it alone because the photo was taken early in the morning and I believe the color intensity is due to the warm light so it’s natural.\u00a0Besides, I like those warm colors.<\/p>\n I probably don’t give sparrows their due on my blog, especially the common species. Images like this one remind me to change my ways.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: An interesting and slightly perplexing statistic about Chipping Sparrows. Cornell’s Birds of North America Online (BNA) says that males are slightly larger than females but females are heavier. I’m still chewing on that one…<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It isn’t often that I’m equally pleased with both the technical aspects and the aesthetic appeal of one of my images but this is one of those times.<\/p>\n