Great Tit

[prashant thakar]

Image created at 16-2-2014;
image is not so good when it take; this bird busy with eating and inside of the tree branches.

7D | 1/256 | F: 7 | ISO: 800 | 360mm | AV Mode | bias: 0 | Manual Evaluating | WB: Auto | HH

Left part of image is stamp and clear; ACR is use for row conversion; small level changes, cropped for composition sharpen at the end

Thanks for viewing; C & C highly appliciated.

[David Kenny]

I like the subject (reminds me of the black capped chickadee by me). Did you do a lot of sharpening to this in post? it seems like the bird may be over sharpened but it could just be my monitor or maybe from image compression. The bird seems a little centered in the frame which works for me here. I tried doing a crop on the image to get rid of some of the more in focus leaves in the background. Just an Idea I had. I thought the crop worked well with this perch. I am still learning myself.

- Dave

[Marina Scarr]

Cute bird, fun pose and pretty good details in the feathers. Your OP doesn't look over sharpened to my eyes,. Assuming this wasn't a large crop, I would crop from the right and bottom to move the bird into the right side of the frame.

[tommy adkins]

I really like the pose and head angle.
It may be my monitor but the whites in the cheek seem hot.
Agree with the others about cropping off the bottom and right side to place the bird more to the right

[Diane Miller]

I saw this on my iPhone yesterday but didn't have time to reply -- I absolutely LOVE it!! The leaves are very artistic and the bird really stands out against them. My suggested crop would be a little off al sides, to remove some small distracting elements and some of the empty space on the left. It puts the bird's eye right in the point of thirds, although that's not always a big thing for me. I don't think it needs a lot of room to look into because of all the interest and visual weight on the right.

[Randall Farhy]

Sure does resemble a Black capped Chickadee here in the States (There's another stateside Chickadee that's difficult to differentiate, other than region). Agree with Tommy, whites do look hot. Back shots are a challenge to get viewer engagement with but you do have the head angle working in your favor here. Though the bird looks to be in focus, there's a softness that I can't put my finger on- perhaps due in part to flat shadow lighting on the greys, or the result of a large crop. The colors and softness of back ground really work, there's is a bit of a merger with the tail and leaf cluster but it's not an image killer. If it's anything like a Chickadee, they usually don't sit still for long!

[Diane Miller]

Good point about a little more detail in the darks and lights. ACR in PS CS6 or CC should let you pull out a little more with the Shadows and Highlights sliders. Older versions are not so capable.