Blue tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from garden hide Canon 1DX Canon 500mm f4 Auto ISO 640 - 0.3, 1/1250 sec f8
All C&C welcome.

[Grace Scalzo]

Sweet frame with pleasing colors and a perky pose on this nice bird. I normally don't care for branches in front of the bird, but this works, I think because of his head turn. I do keep wanting to trim about two inches off the right side (even at the risk of becoming a bit squarish) as I can't figure out what that space is adding to the frame and my eye keeps drifting down to the right corner as a result. One tiny thing, I'd remove the partial leaf on the left edge.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Grace I thought the same as you originally and I cropped some of the right side off, I decided however the the bird was then too large in the frame.

[Mike Poole]

I like the pose with the head angle and I like the framing between the branches. I have looked at different crops and whilst a bit off the right would be nicer for the BG, the bird gets too big in the frame, so in my opinion you've got it right

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice rich colours, and a complexe but pleasing perch. Good head turn, well exposed, nice details. I'd remove the white speck in the eye at the 7 o'clock position.

[Simon Wantling]

Lovely details and composition. Looks like harsh light but handled really well.

[Eric Dienesch]

Hello,
a really nice picture from one of our most seen birds in german gardens :-)
for me a really good composition within the trees.
The only thing for me is, that it seems to be a little bit too much sharpness, could it be ??

Greetings Eric

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, perch, BG and details. It looks like they have coarse feathers so sharpness looks good. Very well done Jonathan.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone much appreciated. The sharpness did concern me, the final image is sharpened by less than my usual amount, I think the angle of the light was a critical factor. The other thing to bare in mind was that I was at f8, a fast shutter speed, and using a tripod head.