Blue Tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4 L IS ISO 320-0.67 1/600 sec f5.6

Shot taken from my garden hide all C & C welcome.

[Doug Brown]

One of your best frames taken in your hide Jonathan! Fantastic pose, with great eye contact, spread wings, and open beak. Sharpness is excellent and your exposure is perfect. Love the perch too. Did you do any cloning around the twig pointing to the left?

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks Doug, I had to add canvas from the tip of the tail feathers leftwards. I used Content Aware for as much as possible and just cloned/patched around the immediate tail vicinity. I don't think I did any cloning or patching in the area of the small twig pointing left.
Possibly (???) I have done incomplete sharpening on the twig - I use a Layer Mask for sharpening the subject and a I use Noise Reduction on the background.

[Richard Unsworth]

:S3:

I agree one of your best yet

Still in CR and remote so not getting much chance to post here

[Tom Rambaut]

Great eye contact. Sense of movement or activity with the wing spread and open beak - looks like he/she is busy. I like the whole side ways pose.

[Nancy Bell]

Great capture of a bird in motion with lovely spread wings and tail. If you didn't want to deal with the upper twigs you could crop just below them and have a nicely balanced image.

[Alan Murphy]

Excellent pose and I really like the sweet delicate perch.

[Josh Clark]

Sweet pose you captured here. Love the open wing spread and angle on the perch.

[Satish Ranadive]

Wonderful action capture.Loved the pose and details.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Really nice Jonathan. I love the view of the underside ofthe wings and tail as well as the mossy perch.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Jonathan...way to go!! Love the pose, perch, BG, deatils (especially the tail feathers...very cool). I f you have it, I'd add a tiny back above to give room the the tiny stubby branch that has its point almost touching the edge. Great stuff, I knew you'd pull out a few gems out of your backyard setup...

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thank you everyone for the encouraging comments, I just hope you like the next one!!:w3

[christopher galeski]

nice image Jonathan,good detail,nice perch,magic BG,thanks.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent! love everything here. well done!

[MohsenVahedipour]

Very nice pose & perch. Congrats on this shot.