I captured this RAW shot last week in our backyard as a flock of Juncos were feeding on the ground and flower heads in the garden. This was mid-morning under heavy cloud cover (Seattle area). Handheld using a Canon 7D, 500mm with 1.4x at 1/1000 sec at f11, ISO 3200. Only post processing was to lighten up the photo a bit using LR.
Greetings. First, I see that this is your first post... Welcome to BPN. A very good looking image. I particularly like the color, the feather detail and the moment. A little noise reduction might be good on the background. I might try a crop from the right to move the subject out of the center. Good show!
Hi Morgan, good job considering lighting must have been pretty poor on the given the high ISO and then having to push up some more. Maybe a little targeted noise reduction as Michael has said. The pose is nice and composition is good. I like the natural environment look to it. However I think I would try to boost vibrance and do a bit of cloning on the bill and clone out out the seed. I know it is feeding but I think it could look better left out. Its a great portrait though and looks very sharp, good job.
I'm Afraid I will end-up being the one that would do much more to this photo . As in , I would clone out every thing except the perch limb . I would leave the flower and the seed . but all remaining elements would go . but that is just me .......Defferent strokes , Right ?
Dark-eyed Junco Feeding
