{"id":28382,"date":"2021-02-17T12:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28382"},"modified":"2021-02-22T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T05:26:53","slug":"potd-house-finch-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28382","title":{"rendered":"House Finch in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201231-House-Finch-7D2-3337c-ngps-w8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/201231-House-Finch-7D2-3337c-ngps-w8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28440\"\/><\/a><figcaption>House Finch with Sunflower Seed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the weather and the recommendations from U.S. medical experts that this is not the time to be traveling, I have been doing much more photography than usual of the birds visiting our bird feeders. This male House Finch had just grabbed a black oil sunflower seed and was getting ready to eat it.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bright snow would fool a camera meter reading so I added about 1 1\/3 stop of exposure compensation to what the camera meter was telling me, which ended up being 1\/3 stop under basic daylight exposure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Data: Canon 7D Mark II. Canon EF 100-400mm Mark II lens at 300mm. f\/8, 1\/1250 sec, ISO 400.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Links<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=27996\">Metering Wildlife in the Snow, Part One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28006\">Metering Wildlife in the Snow, Part Two<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=27973\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How To\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Series: Winter Photography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=26735\">How to Use Your Camera\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Exposure Compensation Scale<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the weather and the recommendations from U.S. medical experts that this is not the time to be traveling, I have been doing much more photography than usual of the birds visiting our bird feeders. This male House Finch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=28382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metering","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28442,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28382\/revisions\/28442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}