More Birds

[Radical]

There both a little soft but I had to take them thru the window.

 

[WesternGuy]

They look a little dark to me - underexposed(?) - probably not, because you ran up against that old problem of photographing something dark like this bird against the snow, which is extremely white. When you have a situation like this with a dark subject against a very light background, I would suggest that you use an exposure compensation of +1 to +1 1/3 stops, or even up to +2 when the subject is is quite dark as this one seems to be.

Do you happen to know what kind of bird they are as they do not look like a bird I would expect to see in the prairies in the Great White North?

WesternGuy

 

[Radical]

The top a sparrow they might get a little more darker but not much, the second is a gold finch which does turn this dull color in winter.

 

[Radical]

Here is the finch at exposure comp +1.


And the sparrow at +.8