I tried my best to take a photograph similar to Drake's beautiful ribbon-winning entry, not an easy thing to do when it comes to natural phenomena! :)
RAW Adjustments: tone comp., auto curves, white balance. Then applied Neat Image, cropped, applied a small amount of hue/sat adjustment, reduced size and applied USM.
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Great capture to copy the original! It's not like you could control your model or even the setting all that much, so congrats on making good use of this opportunity. Good focus, dof, and exposure.
Either the most enormous luck, or the most enormous patience :-) Have you used a sharpening brush around the crest, and the eyes/beak area? The way that little grainy patches have emerged is a pity. For the same impact you'd need more snowflakes passing - but that really is taking the copying idea too far - but my point is that 'bracing aginst the snow storm' isn't communicated here as well as in the original. Hope that doesn't sound harsh judgement, but you have set yourself a very hard task here.
Very nice! The background is a bit distracting, al little more blur to diffuse it's effect and the tail not being cut off (that always bothers me with birds) would have made this a 10, as is an 8
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