Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree

johnrmoyer — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:36:43 GMT

This morning, I made a photo of a Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree at our house in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. On July 29, 2024.

Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on July 29, 2024

I used exiftool to dump some of the metadata from the JPG file and to dump a list of all of my edits in Canon DPP from a dr4 recipe file.

EXIF:Camera	ExposureProgram	Aperture-priority AE
EXIF:Image	ExposureTime	1/1250
EXIF:Image	FNumber	9.0
EXIF:Image	ISO	1600
MakerNotes:Camera	FocalLength	560 mm
EXIF:Time	DateTimeOriginal	2024:07:29 08:27:44
MakerNotes:Camera	MeteringMode	Evaluative
MakerNotes:Camera	ContinuousDrive	Continuous, Low
MakerNotes:Camera	FocusMode	AI Servo AF
MakerNotes:Camera	AFAreaMode	Face + Tracking
MakerNotes:Camera	AFConfigTool	Case 1
MakerNotes:Camera	InitialAFPointInServo	Initial AF Point Selected
MakerNotes:Camera	SubjectToDetect	Animals
MakerNotes:Image	ExposureCompensation	-2/3
MakerNotes:Image	MeasuredEV	12.00
MakerNotes:Image	MeasuredEV2	20.5
MakerNotes:Camera	MeasuredRGGB	800 1024 1024 454
MakerNotes:Image	FocusDistanceUpper	10.53 m
MakerNotes:Image	FocusDistanceLower	9.04 m
MakerNotes:Camera	RollAngle	0.5
MakerNotes:Camera	PitchAngle	9.7
CanonVRD:Image	WorkColorSpace	sRGB
CanonVRD:Image	RawBrightnessAdj	0.33
CanonVRD:Image	WhiteBalanceAdj	Daylight
CanonVRD:Image	WBAdjColorTemp	5200
CanonVRD:Image	PictureStyle	Shot Settings
CanonVRD:Image	LuminanceNoiseReduction	2
CanonVRD:Image	ChrominanceNoiseReduction	2
CanonVRD:Image	DLOSetting	50
CanonVRD:Image	GammaSaturation	1.3
CanonVRD:Image	UnsharpMaskStrength	2
CanonVRD:Image	UnsharpMaskFineness	1.5
CanonVRD:Image	UnsharpMaskThreshold	4
CanonVRD:Image	GammaSaturation	1.3
CanonVRD:Image	GammaShadow	-1.5
CanonVRD:Image	GammaBlackPoint	+0.000
CanonVRD:Image	GammaWhitePoint	+1.400
CanonVRD:Image	DPRAWMicroadjustBackFront	1
CanonVRD:Image	DPRAWMicroadjustStrength	8
CanonVRD:Image	CropX	621
CanonVRD:Image	CropY	598
CanonVRD:Image	CropWidth	3600
CanonVRD:Image	CropHeight	2400

I put an HDR PQ HIF file that I saved from Canon DPP software on my web server at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/HIF/IMG_0950c.HIF , but that will not display in my Chrome browser or in my Firefox browser. It does display in the Safari browser on my iMac or on my iPad. I can edit it in gimp on my Debian Linux computer, but I do not have a high dynamic range display for my Debian machine.

The red and green channels were not clipped in the CR3 file, but were clipped in the out of camera JPG even at EV -2/3. In DPP, I brightened the image +1/3 and increased the dynamic range and there are still a few red pixels clipped but none of the green pixels are clipped. In Canon DPP in HDR PQ mode, I was able to brighten the image +2/3 without any red pixels being clipped.

After editing the CR3 file in Canon DPP, I used exiftool to add IPTC and XMP metadata and to copy makernotes from the CR3 file to the JPG and HIF files.

IPTC metadata may be viewed at https://getpmd.iptc.org/getiptcpmd.html by entering a URL for an image. For example: https://getpmd.iptc.org/getpmd/html/ipmdstd/wvo/ipmd/?imgurl=https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/HIF/IMG_0950cs.JPG

Re: Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree

TomRamsey — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 17:18:50 GMT

Very nice, a bird that I have never run into yet.

Re: Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) on Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) tree

johnrmoyer — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:13:00 GMT

@TomRamsey wrote:

Very nice, a bird that I have never run into yet.

Thanks. They are very wary this year and most of my photos of them this year are at a birdfeeder or far away in deep shadow hiding behind branches.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Painted_Bunting/overview has a range map for the bird.

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