BLUE TIT

[Paolo Piazza]

1D MARK III and 300 2.8 with TC 2X
ISO 800 f/8 1/1600 600 mm
manual mode
tripod

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Paolo

Good looking bird and behavior, always better catching them doing something !!! Exposure seems good and bird is sharp !! Would try getting more in sun angle is possible, look at the right side of the bird !!

The light branches do attract attention and there is not much you can do about it except trying to catch him on another perch, PS wise might lower sharpening a bit !! .. btw the one light branch intersecting the head seems to be the most prominent !!!

[Lance Peters]

Hi Palao - For me tastes - just seems a little too in your face - wouldn't mind seeing a little more room all around.
BG is a little noisy - some noise reduction will help.
looking forward to seeing more :)

[Dave Mills]

Hi Paolo, Interesting subject with the added bonus of him feeding. It's very difficult to get an environmental shot in a tree without lots of distractions.In this case the lighting and branches weren't working in your favor. The 1DMkIII should be able to easily handle ISO 800 without noise. This could have been a very large crop or greatly oversharpened?

[Paolo Piazza]

Hi Paolo, Interesting subject with the added bonus of him feeding. It's very difficult to get an environmental shot in a tree without lots of distractions.In this case the lighting and branches weren't working in your favor. The 1DMkIII should be able to easily handle ISO 800 without noise. This could have been a very large crop or greatly oversharpened?

I did not use any noise reduction; the image is oversharpened; pixel size is 1782 x 1782.