I suspect that the over-exposed pixels involve the rachis of one of the feathers on the left wing. FWIW, I don’t worry about those slight specular highlights and they are easily tamed for print by reducing the whites from 255 to something like 252 thereby forcing the printer to lay down a bit of ink in those areas.

Canon’s lack of real time zebras reduces my ability to nail the exposure precisely and is a big plus for Sony. So would I have intentionally reduced the exposure by 1/3rd? No, I would have aimed to have achieved ideal exposure but shooting my Canon most likely it would have ended up slightly under-exposed.

Thanks for commenting, Bob. The red near the eye is the bird :). Look more carefully for red where there should not be any.

I will bring my rope to Homer 🙂 In the meantime, check here.

with love, artie