Breakfast Please: House Finches + Repost

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Description

While waiting for orioles, two house finches showed up at the feeders with junior at feed me now mode. Morning light was perfect and I fired away. Fledgling house finches are theatrical and pester any nearby adult for food. Dad was obliging and they left the area with full bellies.

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How do you feel about this image? Is it to bright?

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Z9 600mm f4 (1/1000 sec at f8, ISO 2500) Levels, DeNoise, Crop for Comp, Fill flash at -2ev.

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The repost features less contrast, slight reduction in exposure and removed most of the bright spot in the upper LH side.

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I like this, Jim. You caught the youngster’s pose beautifully. Did you try anything with a lower shutter speed to try to get more wing blur in the youngster?

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Super!! Wonderful interaction with good focus on both. Very nice perch and BG. For me it is a bit high in contrast, especially on papa, and I wonder about burning down the bright BG spot in the UL corner.

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Hi Jim
I would change anything. The brighter green lighting in the upper left side of the frame brings my eye right to junior. Nice work.
Peter

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I like this image just fine. It’s a nice “moment”. I’ve been seeing a lot of this lately around here. Lots of hungry kids begging. Well caught!

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Hi Jim, I like the BG better in the rework. Think I could go either way on the brightness of the birds. A fine behavioral catch of the youngster begging to the adult.

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Hi Jim. I think the repost is a significant improvement over an already fine image. Well done.

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Thank you @Allen_Sparks , @Dennis_Plank , @Dave_Douglass , @Peter_Morrissey , @Diane_Miller. I like the repost too and should make a fine print…Jim

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Oh for sure print that. Fabulous.

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Super! Thumbs up!

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