Great Tit

[Jonathan Ashton]

Camera Model Canon EOS 7D Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/2500 Av( Aperture Value ) 6.3 Metering Mode Evaluative Metering Exposure Compensation -2/3 ISO Speed 500 Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM Flash Off FE lock OFF White Balance Mode Auto AF Mode AI Servo AF AF area select mode AF Point expansion Picture Style StandardCamera Model Canon EOS 7D Shooting Mode Aperture-Priority AE Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/2500 Av( Aperture Value ) 6.3 Metering Mode Evaluative Metering Exposure Compensation -2/3 ISO Speed 500 Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM Flash Off FE lock OFF White Balance Mode Auto AF Mode AI Servo AF AF area select mode AF Point expansion Picture Style Standard

Another shot from my garden hide. By placing the food near to the end of a flexible perch I got some movement as the birds alighted and took off just about giving me chance to focus. I hope the quality hasn't suffered the original jpeg was 200.9 in size (don't know why I set the max size to 198k) and it was rejected so I resaved and it came out slightly smaller.
All C & C welcome

[Terry Olmsted]

Looks like a challenging bird to capture with those white cheek feathers and black cap, Jonathan. I love
the 'dancing' action with the blurred wings. A lovely background, although it appears just a bit noisy on my monitor, but not disconcertingly so. A pleasure to look at. Thanks for posting it!
Terry

[Randy Stout]

Jon:

It looks like he is walking a tightrope, based on the pose.
Sharp,well exposed,nice BG colors. Neat perch.

I think it is quite cute

Cheers

Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat pose with the one foot still gripping the perch - looks like it is flying away with it! Too bad the near wing is casting a shadow on most of the yellow flank, but still good timing on your part, and very sharp considering the speed of these little guys.

I could be mistaken, but the perch contour seems like it was masked for some possible BG work?

[Alan Lillich]

Ditto for the other comments about the pose, perch, and background. I'm seeing quite a bit of chroma noise in the shaded parts of the body and wings. Since here isn't a lot of detail there you might want to do some local NR.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the feed back everyone, the perch was selectively sharpened with a Layer Mask I set the brush to about 60% whilst using 100% for the bird.
Regarding noise I am not sure I see it unless it is the soft grey areas that are blurred but I think they would be grey with the wings moving so quickly.

[Stu Bowie]

Good ballerina pose Jonathan, and well timed to capture it. I like the moss covered perch, together with colourful OOF BG.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Jonathan, loved this pose....so unique. Great timing.