Blue tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from my garden hide, tripod head bolted to shelf, Canon 1DX Canon 500mm f4 Auto ISO 1000, 1/2500 sec f8
All C&C welcome.

[MiroslavMaric]

Great moment, dynamic pose and good light with natural color. Well done shot of this small and fast bird. I like the pose and all details on the bird. If mine I would edit the right/down side of BG to decrease the strong transition from bright to dark and I would change the frame/crop - add some canvas in the direction of the movement. TFS.

Cheers,
Miro

[Bill Dix]

Great action, nice sharpness on face and leg, good light. I second Miro's suggestions.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Wonderful moment, and great detail. I might be wrong, but seems the mid tones in BG could use a bit of NR. Beautiful as posted.





Geoffrey

[Alan Murphy]

Excellent flight shot of one of my favorite birds.

[William Dickson]

Well done Jonathan, these birds in flight are very difficult to capture. Very nice. Thanks for sharing

[Jim Neiger]

Sweet flight shot! I love the talon poised for landing.

[David Salem]

Nice frame of this small bird in flight. Not easy at all, so well done. The face is pretty sharp as is the foot ready for landing. I think a little looser comp will look good and a little more sharpening might help the feathers on the chest. Great work.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone much appreciated. Images like this are easy to take but not so easily obtained, I had dozens of shots that looked good until I looked at higher magnification and then they were just a tad out. Needless to say all the ones with the big flared wings and open bills etc fall into this category but I will continue as soon as we get a little light. From what I can see opportunities in October in UK will be limited due to a great deal of rainfall and cloud. (Typical Brit moaning about the weather!)

[Hazel Grant]

like your phrase "easy to take but not so easily obtained." so true. patience....and one day...aha....there it is
nice shot here. comments above agreed with.