Dark Eye Junco

[John Mack]

Junco at the feeder set up. Image adjustments in Lightroom.

Hand held, Full frame.

Canon 5D MarkIII
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 800
f8.0
1/1600sec

[Randy Stout]

John:

Handsome Junco, well exposed to keep detail in snow and darker areas. Nice head angle, catchlight.

Is the white in the background from snow drifts, or clouds?

Cheers

Randy

[Krishna Prasad kotti]

Nice Image.

I like to cool blue back ground. Good Exposure and Nice Head Angle.

[Jonathan Ashton]

I really like the colours here and the junco is beautifully exposed.

[Isaac Grant]

Bird looks nice against the snow. Everything does! Exposure looks good as well. I wish the bird was a little higher on that mound. Also was the snow in the background so blue or is that a sensor issue. Often I find that snow looks far too blue in the camera and you need to reduce the blues a bit to get it closer to what it was when you took the shot.

[John Mack]

The dark lines through the background are from shadows of tree branches.

[Isaac Grant]

That makes sense John but were they that blue in person? As mentioned, shadows are often far too blue and you need to selectively tone down the blue in those areas. Usually I will select those areas and then feather at least 7 pixels. Then in hue/saturation will lower the blue saturation until the shadows look dark gray as they should instead of blue. You can also adjust color in selective color as well.