Great tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from garden hide
Canon 1Dx Canon 500mm f4 Auto ISO 640 -0.3, 1/1250 sec f7.1
All C&C welcome

[gail bisson]

This is beautiful Jonathan.
Perfect calendar stuff.
Great colors and composition.
Love the over the shoulder head pose and the berries.
I wonder what the comp would look like if you loosened the RHS to include the entire berries that are cut off.
Not much to critique with this lovely image,
gail

[Norm Dulak]

Hi Jon.

I too would like to see all of the berries on the right. But that is a trivial nit in view of what is an outstanding image. Subject, pose, perch, color, sharpness and background are all terrific.

[Greg Oakley]

Awesome frame - super sharp bird with nice look-back pose, plus the berries are fab :-)

[William Dickson]

Nice image Jonathan. The colours on the bird, BG and perch blend lovely. Not sure about the OOF berries. Well done

[christopher galeski]

nice one Jonathan,great pose,love the BG,like the perch,bird sharp with good detail.

[shane shacaluga]

Lovely back pose. Berries and BG enhance the beauty of the subject. Nicely exposed and great details

Chopped berries are not an issue for me but maybe something could be done about positioning of subject in the frame

TFS

TFS

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very beautiful image!
Love the pose the bird gave you and the nice contrast that the red berries? create with the bird and BG.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks very much everyone, I did play around with the crop, I also tried a 4:3 landscape version, maybe I should have gone for a freestyle crop and included those two berries.

[Satish Ranadive]

Magnificent image. Great perch, pose, beautiful colors and composition.

Regards,
Satish.