Tall, medium and short...female Brown-headed Cowbirds

[Ken Childs]

Canon EOS REBEL T1i
Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS @ 220mm
Manual mode
1/200"
F10
ISO: 400
Canon 430EX: On, Fired
CS3

I don't have a lot experience with shooting in the snow so I've been taking advantage of our recent snow/ice storm to try and figure it out.

I cloned out another bird that was on a branch below and I moved the bird on the right slightly to the left to balance the shot.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pretty cool to have three in the frame and with quite different poses. Maybe a bit more contrast and/or saturation?

[Randy Stout]

Ken:
I almost had a feeling it was one bird in three different frames of a video as he moved. Quite neat.

I do agree with Axel, and tried a bit of saturation/curves adjustment(mid point) and liked the result. Might be worth a revisit.

Cheers

Randy

[DanWalters]

Like the white background and the way the birds are evenly spaced. Very clean image.

[Ken Childs]

Ken:
I almost had a feeling it was one bird in three different frames of a video as he moved. Quite neat.

I do agree with Axel, and tried a bit of saturation/curves adjustment(mid point) and liked the result. Might be worth a revisit.

Cheers

Randy

I just played around a bit with curves and it does look a lot better. Thanks a bunch for the suggestions.