This shot was taken at Les Marais du Nord, north of Quebec City.

The treatment of the photo is different from my others in that I heavily modified the background.

The shot is almost full-frame, but originally contained a variety of nagging branches in two uncomplementary layers in the foreground.

The upper half of the background remained as is, but I used it to clone the lower half.

I could have been a bit more agressive with my sharpening of the bird.

I'm not sure I like the image as is - the bird seems lost within the background. Perhaps I should have left in a bit of the branches to give the bird more depth.

Decisions, decisions.

Canon 40D with 400L 5.6 lens @ 1/1000, f 5.6, ISO 400, + 1/3 exposure compensation.

Cheers,

Mike