{"id":1912,"date":"2011-06-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2011-06-12T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T14:35:37","slug":"american-goldfinch-ever-so-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/american-goldfinch-ever-so-close\/","title":{"rendered":"American Goldfinch – Ever So Close!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned a few posts back (post here<\/em><\/strong><\/a>), I have been a little obsessed with making some images of American Goldfinches in garden and woodland settings.<\/p>\n

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Male American Goldfinch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I mentioned in Monday’s post, I decided to use some fill flash to compensate for the flat,overcast, drama-less light that has been the large part of our spring here in New England. One of the benefits (definitely think it is a benefit here) of the really shallow depth of field is how the Goldfinches pop off the black background.<\/p>\n

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American Goldfinch Male Low on Perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally, people only like the images of the male of the species this time of year due to their rich, explosive color. This last image of a female however has me captivated. Maybe its because there is a subtle beauty in her feathers against the black background and not the bold yellow seen in the male.<\/p>\n

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Female American Goldfinch on Perch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While these images are better than anything else I have taken of this species, I still think I have more work to do. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Images captured on Nikon D3x with 600mm f\/4 and Tce-II 1.4 on Lexar Digital film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned a few posts back (post here), I have been a little obsessed with making some images of American Goldfinches in garden and woodland settings. As I mentioned in Monday’s post, I decided to use some fill flash to compensate for the flat,overcast, drama-less light that has been the large part of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-education-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t