Cedar waxwing at supper and extremely underexposed

A couple of hours ago, it was getting ready to rain and this cedar

waxwings, with three others, had appeared in our garden to eat the leaf

worms in the trees.



I'm not sure exactly how many stops of underexposure I gave this picture;

probably five. I had forgotten the camera was set at 1/8000 second and,

even though the ISO was high (640) and the aperture wide open (f/2.8), it

wasn't very bright out.



So, it was badly under-exposed. When I first looked at the picture on my

computer it was a black rectangle. I jammed up the brightness, cropt

tightly, adjusted contrast & sharpening, and got this, which looks almost

like the kind of pictures I like so much from expired film. So I gave it a

frame.