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    Tony House
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    Long Tailed Tit (Aegithalos Caudatus ) One of my favourite members of the tit species, well nearly :D Super fast and very fickle, I was lucky this one stopped still for a millisecond.

    I would have liked the tip of the tail to have been sharper but I was still pleased with the end result.

    Techs: 1/125 @ F14 EC-2/3 ISO 200
    1DMK11 N 500F4 + 1.4XTC Tripod and Gimbal head

    Thanks for looking.

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    A very beautiful image Tony! Well done!

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    Tony the BG and the perch looks fantastic. The pose of the LT tit is superb, with a very good head turn anf¡d eye contact. I think that critical focus point is not on the bird but on the perch. Regarding composition I whish for just a little bit of more room at the left side of the frame. Very good light BTW

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    Hi Juan, do you mean the perch is too much and draws you away from the bird? the focus point was on the birds eye which I always try for..
    I'll have to start moving back a bit from my subjects from now on, I get greedy with only 8mp to play with, I try and fill every pixel with something, hate having to crop other than to A4.

    Many thanks everyone for your comments.
    Tony

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    Have to agree with all the above Tony and then some it's just plain SUPERB.

    Bill

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    Very nice, lovely perch and pose, cute bird and great BG and light, I noticed the bird a bit soft so I agree with Juan's comment here, but lovely indeed! Congratualitons!

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    Great pose, eye contact, perch and BG. I would go for a slightly wider crop in order not to clip the blossom at the bottom and you could try to sharpen the bird a bit more.

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    Hi Tony,

    I have to agree with Axel. I think if you apply a little more sharpening will add more details to the feathers and perch. The composition works very well for me as presented.

    Thank you for sharing!

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    Tony the perch is just beautiful. What I wanted to say is that the perch seems to be more sharp than the eye or other part of the bird. If you move a couple of steps back is sure that you will not have a frame filling bird but, on the other hand, you will have more deep of field and you will have more possibilties for composition/croping. With an 8Mp camera, a good exposure job and a moderate croping you can produce terrific images. Do not forget that many terrific images are not of the kind of a bird filling all the frame. To include interesting elements in the composition like habitat details, a nice perch like the one you have here or more room can help to produce better images IMO.

    By the way, my crop limit is, like yours, A4 :)


    Quote Originally Posted by Tony House View Post
    Hi Juan, do you mean the perch is too much and draws you away from the bird? the focus point was on the birds eye which I always try for..
    I'll have to start moving back a bit from my subjects from now on, I get greedy with only 8mp to play with, I try and fill every pixel with something, hate having to crop other than to A4.

    Many thanks everyone for your comments.
    Tony

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    Hi Juan,
    the birds head is in the same plain as the perch and the original file shows no difference in sharpness between the two but like you said certain parts do look soft.
    For me the softness is on the wing tips and tail, I try and keep everything parallel to the camera which helps in the DOF but with the 1.4 tc on and being at min focus distance for the set up I think I had less than 12mm to play with at F14.

    I messed up alot of Kingfisher images being to close to the min focus distance, heads were sharp but the back and tail of the bird was soft even at F16 so I knew I had set up way too close the perch.

    Thanks for reply and advice, all taken on board so I'll try and move back a little bit.
    I'm here to learn so your critique is very much appreciated.

    Tony
    Last edited by Tony House; 12-18-2008 at 05:54 PM.

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    I think that is would be better if there was a little more room in front of the bird,but it shouldn't be more sharpened.In original that fluffy creature looks more gentle.Congratulations!!

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    Beautiful angle on the bird Tony, and a lovely perch. The plumage detail sharpness looks fine to me, obviously apart from the end of the tail. With the subtle colouring of this bird it would be all too easy to oversharpen - as Piotr says the degree of sharpness shown above is in keeping with the nature of the bird. Maybe it could do with a little more space, but it's a great image of a surprisingly difficult bird to photograph.

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    A little selective sharpening on the bird. Other than that, I would'nt change a thing. Superb image.

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    Piotr and Melvin: you raised interesting questions :). I have to agree about the natural softness of the LT tits (belly, back, flanks, etc) but I think that is not the reason of softness in this image because the wing feathers, bill and eye are not sharp and those parts of the body are not soft in real life.
    In my opinion the colours in the plumage of a species has no relationship with softness/sharpness (natural softness is related to texture/nature of the feathers).

    I would like to add one last thing: a good image is not always a technically perfect image. A technically perfect image is not necessary a good image ;)

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    Mark and Juan,I'm agree with you.Meybe little selective sharpening is enough here.
    Last edited by Piotr Shpakowski; 12-19-2008 at 04:29 PM.

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