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Backlite Tufted titmouse
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Backlite Tufted titmouse

by John Tobias

Gallery: AvianPosted December 14, 2015143 views4 comments
Been trying most of the year off and on to get a decent series of tit mouse.  They are very fast, perch and fly!  This one was in a tree with lots of little twigs and branches as with light coming almost full back light. 

Canon T6i
1/320 @ F-6/3 ISO 1600
Sigma 150-600C @ 546mm
tripod

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Cay-Uwe Kulzer on December 14, 2015 at 1:24 PM
John,

some years ago I made shots of a pair of blue tits in my garden and know exactly what you are saying.

You manged to get a fine image of this bird under the given conditions. A pitty is the branch on the top, but that is the way it is. If they are frequent in your garden or region I recommend you to observe them a while. Often they like to perch in the same branches. That may help you to find a better position for a photograph. You may try also to use fill in flash. It helped me a lot and you may use a lower ISO since I have noticed that many of your images look a bit pixelated.
Registered on January 27, 2004, 494 Posts, 4021 Comments
Comment posted by Dennis Plank on December 14, 2015 at 3:26 PM
A very nice job on the exposure of this one, John, and nice sharp detail as well.  I like the typically energetic titmouse pose.  If you wanted to, you could clone the two little triangular patches from the bottom corners.

devil
Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments
Comment posted by Keith Bauer on December 14, 2015 at 11:13 PM
John:
I like the potential of this image.  Nice pose.  Some technical issues with noise and some distracting branches.  I thought it would be interesting to see what might happen with some somewhat agressive processing.  Certainly not suggesting going to this kind of extreme, but wanted to see the potential.  Here's a version with about 10 minutes of Photoshop work.
Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments
Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on December 15, 2015 at 8:37 PM
John, I completely agree with Keith and like his repost. I think this one is worth the effort of doing a it more. I also agree with you, these little ones are very fast and don't like to sit still for long. So congrats on finally nailing one.
Registered on June 19, 2008, 1005 Posts, 8028 Comments