{"id":95499,"date":"2021-02-28T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=95499"},"modified":"2021-02-28T08:49:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:49:27","slug":"green-tailed-towhee-on-a-pretty-perch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/28\/green-tailed-towhee-on-a-pretty-perch\/","title":{"rendered":"Green-tailed Towhee On A Pretty Perch"},"content":{"rendered":"

My antidote for yesterday’s unattractive (as in ugly) perches.<\/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

All four photos I posted yesterday had birds on less than attractive perches (to make my point, but still…) so today I decided to go with the other extreme by posting a bird on a perch with oodles of visual appeal.<\/p>\n

Near the end of May of 2018 I photographed this Green-tailed Towhee playing hide and seek with me on a flowering Serviceberry branch in a Wasatch Mountain valley. ‘He’ wasn’t particularly close so he’s fairly small in the frame but there are plenty of attractive elements in the photo to mostly fill the frame and I think the colorful (for a sparrow) bird tops the image off nicely.<\/p>\n

He’s partially hidden but if I’m going to have obstructions in front of part of the bird they could be worse than attractive leaves and pretty flowers.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a vertical composition of the same image. Personally I prefer it and perhaps you will too.<\/p>\n

One of the reasons I included this second composition is the sharpness of the flowering branch all the way to the upper left corner of the frame. With my extremely shallow depth of field at this focal length (effectively 1120 mm) it’s a treat for me to get this much of an attractive perch, or any perch, sharp.<\/p>\n

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This photo I posted yesterday illustrates my point. Just look how quickly sharpness begins to fall off on the wire in front of and behind the hawk. Both photos were taken at the same aperture (6.3) and I was much closer to the towhee than I was to the hawk so I’d have even less depth of field on the towhee’s perch than I do on this wire. I added this photo after the post was published.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’ve been wanting to get back to this area for months to check it out for winter birds but with the sun so low in the sky in winter the valley stays in shade for much of the day so it’s been a while.<\/p>\n

But tomorrow’s March 1. It won’t be long now.<\/p>\n

Ron.<\/p>\n

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My antidote for yesterday’s unattractive (as in ugly) perches.<\/p>\n

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