Bean bag Canon 50D Canon 100-400L IS ISO 800 -1.67 1/320 f6.3 fill in flash -2
A shot taken from my garden hide, having taken straight portraits I was after some interaction shots, here the Great Tit is telling another one to move over!
Fantastic exposure. Love how you saved the whites and yet got excellent detail in the dark using the flash.
If anything, I would remove the flash highlight on the berries.
Very nice work!
this indeed a cracker shot. the only thing very quickly i notice is based on the focal plane i think the beak needs bit of attention to do some processing and make it little sharper. some room around bird is required as the size of bird and the perch is cropped very tightly.
Very nice shot, sharpness, exp and BG. The one thing for me that is a problem is the huge empty space in the upper right quarter of the image. I don't know what the remedy would be for this but it really draws my eye away from the bird It makes for an unbalanced comp IMO. Maybe a crop from the right? Also, I would like more room above the birds head and would remove the little branch in the lower left if your ethics allow.
Loverly light, BKGR, and berries. It looks as if this one were gonna be the move-ee rather than the mover. SH, EXP, and use of fill flash all excellent. Way to go.
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I like this image a lot. The subject is softly lighted with great detail and portrayed against a lovely background that compliments the bird. The perch is a bonus! As suggested, you might soften the highlites in the berries, but that isn't a biggie for me.
I do like the image - especially exposure and sharpness. But I do think that the image looks off-balanced - especially I'd prefer the bird have more space on top and the branch to take an even stronger decline from left to right. As presented it appears as if the black stripe on the bird's chest was taken as the vertical axis... JR
Last edited by Joerg Rockenberger; 09-25-2010 at 01:08 AM.
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Great Tit
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