robertjerl wrote:
This male house finch was perched on the top of a potted dwarf tree in warm late afternoon sunlight, mid-Jan 2022. The use of a fill flash using High Speed Sync and a high shutter speed isolated him, with the surroundings and background greatly under exposed. Then a bit of tweaking of the tones, contrast etc. turned everything but the bird and his perch into a textured black where you keep feeling you are almost seeing something. But what?
Canon 90D, 100-400L mk2+1.4x III @ 490, 1/2000 @ f/8.0, ISO-1600
handheld with HSS fill flash
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