Seasonal Blue Tit

[John Robinson]

Blue Tit in hazel.

Some say that doing birds in the garden is easy. I certainly don't find it so. I am still trying to get the Blue Tit shot that will do me. Not there yet..
Used the garden hide yesterday but got too cold. Back to shootuing through the window- much warmer !
This is in a Hazel in the garden- not a setup perch
Late afternoon sun from the right
The white in the eye is the reflection of the white house wall and window.
Nikon D7100
Sigma 50-500
800 ISO
250th @f9

70% of frame.
Neat image. Part of blurred tit removed in BG
Curves in PSP
Thanks for looking.
JohnR

[gail bisson]

Hi John,
What a lovely bird. Wish we had them in Nova Scotia.
I like the bird but must admit the reflection in the eye is a bit odd looking.At first I thought it was "steel eye" from using a flash but then read your explanation.
Since you have already done some cloning work, I would evict the foliage that is dropping down from the upper frame on the right of the bird.
If you have it, I would add more room on the bottom to include the entire seed pod at the bottom of the frame. This would also move the tit up into the LUC which I think would be more pleasing to the eye.
I love the colors in the BG and the sidelight.
I little bit more sharpening of the beak area would be good.
A very nice frame . TFS
Gail

[John Robinson]

Thanks Gail
Will have a play in a minute
Cheers
John

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot John I like the psoe, there seems to be a line or area of less sharp detail running from the bill to the eye.
You may want to emphasise his blue head a little??

[John Robinson]

Heresw a repost .Gails ideas taken on board.
Took a lot of work as there was nothing much to playwith on the original.
Jon - left the blue as was as you know my track record on colour !
Cheers
John

[Karl Egressy]

Sweet looking bird, the repost works better, John.

[John Robinson]

Thanks Karl.
Appreciated
John