Spotted Towhee

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This is the fairly typical habitat for the towhee, so I didn’t do my usual pruning and left this as an “environmental” shot.

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Canon R5; 100-500 with 1.4 TC at 420 mm; 1/1000 at f8, -1/3 EV; ISO 3200

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This is lovely, Allen. Beautiful shot of the Towhee and I like the environment, though I might be tempted to remove the one left to right twig over the birds head as it seems to be a bit of an eye magnet. I do like the rest of the background briars.

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Great Towhee image, Allen. I love the pose and head turn. They’re starting to be quite numerous at the local wetlands, I think I need to camp out one morning with the tripod and gimbal and see if I can catch something like this wonderful one.

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Lovely! Wonderful sharpness and environment. I like the touch of gray toward the UL. I could see a bit of softening or pruning in the UL corner but not a big deal.

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Hi Allen
I have never see a Spotted Towhee, very cool. It’s very sharp and the coloring, framing and eye contact are really nice.
Peter

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Beautiful image of a beautiful bird. The bird, perch and background have fitted together so well. I didn’t notice the OOF across the front until @Sandy_Richards-Brown mentioned it. It dosn’t bother me.

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I like it! I like Spotted Towhees, and this is a great image. I like the background textures and colors, I feel like it’s nice and blendy with the bird.
I agree about the ULC though, not sure it needs to be removed but maybe burned down the highlights or perhaps just some negative clarity. I do like the color in the ULC, though. Maybe it’s not really that distracting. The bird looks great, so that’s probably all that matters!

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I’ve never seen a towhee or a photo of it before - beautiful bird! Well captured, nice and sharp. I’m all for a limited DOF, to make sure nothing distracts from the subject. Nicely done!
Grt, Ingrid.

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