City living

[moon]

My wife spotted this on the way to work
I am a new owner of a Canon 450d kit lens 18 to 55mm.
I have taken a number of pics of this with varying results.
What could I have done better.I have metered spot and evalutive.The bird is tiny and with the sky being the background makes lighting difficult. "well for me anyway"

Gary

[Sterling]

I'd be tempted to crop out all of the surrounding sky here to reconfigure as a portrait orientation. The location will still be recognizable as a traffic light, the bird will be larger in the frame, and the sky isn't adding anything to the shot anyway.

[youknowhat]

have you consider to add some black in your picture ? (Lightroom ->develop .push black a little bit to restore to black colour of the Traffic light)#

beaware of bright area where the reader tend to look at first, and therefore crop out all the white!

Post posscessing is essantial now, do everything u could to turn this traffic light black .. as it should be.