female bluebird

[eric s]

I got up with the sun today (4am ugh!) to try to catch the bluebirds when they were doing morning feeding. I hoped to see them getting food from the same flowing crabapple in my previous bluebird shot. I didn't get that, but I did get a few nice ones of them returning with food. I'm so suprised this came out as well as it did, being as I shot it at 1/15th!

That blue on the top of the bird house is actually natural (I almost tried to remove it any ways.) I assume it's because of the bright blue sky at 5:30 when I took the shot.. 'cause it's there in the original pre-edit shot.

Camera: 10D [email protected] 1/15th f/5.6 ISO 200 550EX @ -1.5 EC (I think), tripod
PS: RAW convert, Neat Image, levels, contrast, saturation, crop, sharpen

[Duckie]

Absolutely outstanding!