Immature Tufted Titmouse

[ChasMcRae]

The yard is full of immature and first year birds. Most are pretty ugly and homely looking with sparse head feathers,dull coloring and immature type bills.
This Tufted Titmouse was perhaps the most attractive of the lot,even though he is a "plain Jane"(please no E mails from angry Janes).
Chas.

Tufted_Titmouse-(Immature)_RAW_0006.cr2
File size: 11.6MB
Image Serial Number: 000-0006
Camera Model: Canon EOS 40D
Camera serial number: 1120719490
Firmware: Firmware Version 1.0.8
Owner: Charles W. Mc Rae
Date/Time: 2009:06:16 15:43:36
Shutter speed: 1/320 sec
Aperture: 5.6
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: -1/3
Flash: External E-TTL High speed sync
Flash exposure compensation: -1
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous (high)
ISO: 400
Lens: EF600mm f/4L IS USM
Focal length: 600mm
Subject distance: 11 m
AF mode: One-shot AF
Image size: 3888 x 2592
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Auto
Picture style: Standard
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal

[Aidan Briggs]

NIce pose,and good use of flash. Sharp as a tack. I have a lot of juvie titmice in my yard as well. I would crop some from the top and bottom. Assuming this was a set up, I would prefer a different perch. This one is a little too dead looking for me, and I don't like the the twigs that have been cut off.

Keep them coming!

[Doug Brown]

Interesting perch, nice pose, good sharpness, and a nice BG. I'd probably not go with a square crop, and I might desat the green spot in the BG just a little. The cut-off branches are less than ideal. Thanks for posting!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

sharp image. nice pose, good eye contact. The bg is well diffused.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Danny Laredo]

Nice looking image, sweet pose and perch.

[Blake Shadle]

Nice work, Chas. Good use of fill flash. I'd give a standard 3:2 horizontal frame a try. Your subject will take up a bit more space in the frame, without feeling cramped, and have more impact on the viewer. A head angle looking slightly toward you would have been ideal, but parallel to the film plane is pretty darn good too. Well done.

[Stu Bowie]

Lovely angled pose, and this is really sharp. Good detail and I like the perch. I would take off the top and bottom to form more of a horizontal crop.

[Mark Dumbleton]

Super image - I dont like the square crop personally - would prefer a more conventional approach - less room on top and below, with more room to the left. Super exposure and BG with good detail on the bird. Nice glint in the eye!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the alert pose, details and particular the blueish feet of this juvenile. Another vote for cropping some off top and bottom.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Noce pose, light, detail, perch and BG, I loved the blue feet.
Congratulations!

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Ugly?

This is a very handsome bird! love the amazing details you've captured here as well as the alert pose. Great image. I prefer the 3:2 ratio though. jc

[Kobus Tollig]

Great pose bg and comp. Cute little bird.