Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 18719-023-1a

Cedar waxwing at supper and extremely underexposed

23 Jul 2018 72
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.