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[dsiegel5151]

Couple Dark-eyed Juncos from this morning's first snow in southern Missouri:

[Joel Eade]

Couple Dark-eyed Juncos from this morning's first snow in southern Missouri:

These are well posed and sharp, especially like the second one. It would really pop if you crop some off the top then darkened the BG slightly and brightened the bird slightly.

[dsiegel5151]

Eh, I'm not patient enough to do anything besides curves and cropping in Photoshop (i.e., every time I edit an image in Photoshop it is painfully obvious that the image was edited). However, I have had some wireless flash triggers sitting in my shopping cart at B&H for a few months now to help better control background and foreground exposure. Maybe now that my bank account is rebounding from the holidays I should hit purchase on those...

[Joel Eade]

Eh, I'm not patient enough to do anything besides curves and cropping in Photoshop (i.e., every time I edit an image in Photoshop it is painfully obvious that the image was edited). However, I have had some wireless flash triggers sitting in my shopping cart at B&H for a few months now to help better control background and foreground exposure. Maybe now that my bank account is rebounding from the holidays I should hit purchase on those...

A little fill flash would do the trick most likely.

I would suggest using your single 430 EXII with a Better Beamer from Visual Echoes....set your flash to ETTL and dial in about -2 1/3 stops as a staring point.

The Better Beamer is a relatively inexpensive accessory that works wonders with flash.