Coal Tit

Here's the first shot of my series of European tits. A small forest close to my house has dozens of these as well as crested, blue, great, and marsh tits. The area experiences quite a lot of human and car traffic in the form of joggers, families with dogs and so on, so the birds are well used to people and cars.

For this shot I deliberatly underexposed by -1.3 to get a decent shutterspeed and then brought the exposure back up during postprocessing. Not ideal but better than motion blur.

20D
300 IS
1.4x
1/250"
f/5.6
iso400
fillflash around -2
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