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Touchable Song Sparrow<\/h4>\n

If you look carefully you will see that there is an out of focus branch right between the camera\/scope and this bird. The bird literally popped up on to this bush top no more than 15 feet from me while I was headed back to the car after some digiscoping. It waited until I got the tripod grounded, the scope focused, the camera swung in, and for maybe ten shots at different effective focal lengths. It was close.  It was fast. It was intense. <\/p>\n

It was only when I got home with the images on the computer that I realized there had been a branch, well out of focus, right between the camera\/scope and the bird. Not that I could have done anything about it. The bird was too close. It certainly would have flown if I had tried to reposition myself. Still, obscuring branch or no, the level of feather detail here is impressive. Try viewing it an a larger size.<\/p>\n

Canon SD1400IS Digital Elph behind the eyepiece of a Diascope 65FL. Equivalent focal length 2200mm. Exif data: f5.9 @ 1\/250th @ ISO 80. Programmed auto. Effective f-stop, f6.1. (When digiscoping there are two f-stops. The f-stop the camera chooses, and the f-stop which is determined by the interaction of the camera lens and the scope. The smaller of the two determines actual exposure.)<\/p>\n

In Lightroom, a touch of Fill Light to compensate for Blackpoint to the right. Added Clarity and just a tiny bit of Vibrance. Sharpen landscape preset. <\/p>\n

From Digiscoped Around Home<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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