Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good job Doug - and one of the smallest birds you've posted on top of that ! I love its latin name, sounds like it's a merry fellow :-) Amiti?s Philippe Le 7 mai 13 ? 06:11, Doug Herr a ?crit : > I consider the drab species a personal challenge. The California > Towhee is common but difficult to photograph well because the bird's > coloration doesn't stand out in its environment; as I see it the > trick is to make the foreground and background more drab than the > bird so the bird will stand out. What do you think? > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/emberizidae/catowh03.html > > technical stuff: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R, tripod & blind, a > handful of seed. Slight crop, sky in upper left corner filled in > with "tree". All comments welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Antoine de Saint Exup?ry in Le Petit Prince. NO ARCHIVE