“The Evestrough Cleaner”

© 2014 Thousand Word Images by Dustin Abbott

This little fellow was hard at work cleaning my eavestroughs from the maple “keys” that had fallen into them yesterday. I have a few cute pictures of him peeking over the edge down at me, but he remained while I balanced on the rail of my deck to provide the shooting angle I wanted. The amazingly small DOF of 200mm and f/2.8 at this distance really gives amazing subject isolation. I did almost nothing to this, other than a minor crop and a couple of minor saturation tweaks to bring the somewhat flat RAW image to visual spec. Enjoy! P.S. While the Tamron version has minutely slower AF and doesn’t play with TC’s as well, its image quality and bokeh rendering is, IMO, actually better than the might Canon MKII version. If you want an amazing lens at a great value for this class, I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Technical information Canon EOS 6D, Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD, Processed in Adobe Lightroom 5

Gear Used:

Canon EOS 6D DSLR Camera (Body Only)
Tamron SP 70-200mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Zoom Lens for Canon
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Software for Mac and Windows (Boxed Version)
Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 1-Year Subscription
Alien Skin Exposure 6

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