I did a square crop to see how it looked and my birdies popped right out of that picture! It was raining and freezing the day this was taken and I was lucky to get one at all because my dogs kept running them off! I did a crop, adjusted levels, applied highlights/lowlights, did a colour overlay on the robins (just to brighten the red breast), and did some dodge and burn to make them easier to see. Used blur tool and sharpen tool selectively on grass and robins. Resized for challenge. Also, I don't know if it matters much, but I had a UV filter on the front of my camera.
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You did a good job Jojo! It's hard to get those little critters to stay still. You can't tell them to say cheeeeeese. You done a good job! You got 3 of them!!!!! I tried to catch some picts of birdies too. But mine didn't cooperate, so I submitted no picture. You at least got a picture.
The composition doesn't work well, IMHO. There's too much uninteresting space in between the birds. Perhaps focusing on just the single robin in the foreground or cropping. Nice colors, though.
The two in the background get lost in the distance. Maybe it would have been better to concentrate on the one in the foreground hand have that more prominent. Just a thought.
I think you were a bit heavy with the dodge tool around the two top birds. I also might have cropped some off from the top and right side. With all the open space in this shot, this would help the viewer spot the birds faster.
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