I took this shot of a male cardinal during a light snowfall from my kitchen today. We have a bird feeder hanging a few feet from the kitchen window, and there was a lot of activity there this morning. I used a Canon 100-500mm zoom plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length. I have no problem shooting through glass, especially if it's clean, because I don't see any degradation in image quality particularly if the lens axis is perpendicular to the plane of the glass. Even if there were a slight amount of reduced sharpness, I can bring the quality back in post-processing with Topaz Sharpen AI (now sold as Topaz Photo AI). The cardinal originally perched on a curved metal piece that was part of the feeder. I used Photoshop to replace the man-made perch with a branch. My settings were 1/1000, f/10, and 4000 ISO. This image is uncropped.
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