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Collection: Birds
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm F/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Mar 19, 2010
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 320
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Birds
Date Uploaded: Mar 20, 2010

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 A male Downy Woiodpecker. He was very agitated because a female Downy kept chasing him away from the feeder, so he puffed up his head. Perhaps he thought it made him look more intimidating ;-)

Taken in late afternoon, with fill flash. Very busy with all those branches so even with a relatively shallow DOF I had to blur a lot in PP and crop tightly to show off his little punk 'do. Actually could have used a smidge more DOF to get all of him in focus but then I would have had even more PP to do. Darn birds hang out in very busy places! But at least the trees haven't leafed out yet; then things get really difficult.

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 03/20/2010 01:29:28 PM
Gotta love Downy Woodpeckers! Tight surrounding are always a problem but sometimes you can use it to your advantage by having the branches frame the subject. Most of the time you just get a mess like you say and have to toss the shot or do some serious cloning.
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