Aegithalos caudatus - Codibugnolo - Long-Tailed Tit

[Daniele Morasca]

An European Species.

Here a shot taken saturday.



Canon 7D - 300 2.8+2x IS - 1/640@F8 - ISO 400 - Lens on hide's window.

Level, Curve, Saturation, Sharpening, really light compositive crop.

I've found really hard AF the subject in the tree, the 7D spot-af have helped a lot. Really don't know if the IS will be useful or not in this situation (lens on support, but not a solid tripod, and average shutter speed).

Any tips or critics will be appreciated. I'm always a newbie of bird photography.

[Dave Leroy]

Nice job on getting the eye and face in focus.

Photo seems a bit tight on the bottom and I think you may want to consider a crop off left to move bird out of centre position.

Good job on catching up to the Tit. If they are anything like ours, they are always on the move.

[Julie Kenward]

Daniele, that is one lovely bird! Even though it's facing away from the viewer you got a great head turn and lots of detail except in the bottom of the tail. Probably could have used a little more DOF there.

The exposure looks very good except for the blown whites in the upper left corner. I'd either crop them out or tone them down as they really catch the viewer's eye. I'd also try to get rid of the OOF branch that is running down behind the bird - it's not hard to do if you know how to work the clone tool. Let me know if you need some help with that. While you're at it, you might also give the light brown stalk a clone out also as it doesn't really add anything of interest to the image and it will give the bird a little more room in the image.

Overall, you did a very nice job on this one. Keep them coming!

[denise ippolito]

Daniele, Jules makes some good points. Nice details and clear eye. The soft color tones are pleasing. Looking forward to more.

[Daniele Morasca]

Daniele, that is one lovely bird! Even though it's facing away from the viewer you got a great head turn and lots of detail except in the bottom of the tail. Probably could have used a little more DOF there.

The exposure looks very good except for the blown whites in the upper left corner. I'd either crop them out or tone them down as they really catch the viewer's eye. I'd also try to get rid of the OOF branch that is running down behind the bird - it's not hard to do if you know how to work the clone tool. Let me know if you need some help with that. While you're at it, you might also give the light brown stalk a clone out also as it doesn't really add anything of interest to the image and it will give the bird a little more room in the image.

Overall, you did a very nice job on this one. Keep them coming!

Thanks Kulie for the tips. I'll try to follow your "guidelines" to improve the shoot :) I'll try to clone the branch but Iìm not so able in doing that ... usually the result it's "not natural".

If you have any tips or article about cloning in PS let me know :) In PM too if you prefer.

Thanks to all for the feddback.

P.s. I've no room to keep the 2:3 ratio and push the subject on le left.