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Crested Tit

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Posted by Edwin kats on December 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Crested Tit
Hi,

Again a shot from my little secret place just outside my backdoor :biggrin:

Two fantastic Crested Tits come every morning to feed on the peanuts.
They almost feed out of my hand. Fantastic!!!!

iso 250 1/30 sec. F4 full frame.

Edwin Kats
Posted by Major Gilbert on December 11, 2008 at 4:59 PM
Well Edwin I wish I had a couple of Crested Tits at my back door.
Great birds and captured on the ulimate perch. Very nice. :toast:

Major.
Posted by jack chapman on December 11, 2008 at 5:33 PM
brilliant image, what a perch, am always impressed by woodland bird shots
Posted by Dave Bartlett on December 11, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Excellent shot Edwin. Maybe you should put the perch on eBay when you've finished !!

Dave
Posted by John Robinson on December 11, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Nice one.
The cheeks are a litttle bright on my gear but maybe my monitor.
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Rene de Heer on December 12, 2008 at 2:52 AM
Lovely image, cheeks are very much on the edge.
Rene de Heer
Posted by PhilH on December 12, 2008 at 3:22 AM
Very nice but I feel the composition isn't quite there for me... with the bird quite close to the top of the frame and seemingly looking slightly upwards it give a feeling of not enough room at the top, I appreciate that you are trying to show the complete Lichen, I just wonder about cropping to include both the pieces of hanging Lichen and then adding some canvass to the top... just my thoughts and preferences and still love the image..

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on December 12, 2008 at 4:56 AM
It is a nice shot Ed, but I do echo Phils' thoughts and suggestion :wink: :wink:

The lighting is superb :wavey:
Posted by John Chapman on December 12, 2008 at 7:05 AM
Beautiful image Edwin. :toast:
Posted by Tim Munsey on December 12, 2008 at 8:23 AM
Beautiful, love the lichen, my lass thinks I'm mad when I get so excited about the lichen in Scotland it's absolutely fantastic up there.

Tim
Posted by Ian Hay on December 12, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Just about perfect

Ian
Posted by Greg Hitchcock on December 12, 2008 at 7:15 PM
Great shot, I agree with Pil though that it's a bit tight at the top, I also see that it would be undesirable to chop of the bottom of the lichen however! Catch 22.

Greg
Posted by Matt Cole on December 13, 2008 at 3:07 AM
possibly a bit tight at the top but to me the composition still seems very nice. A lovely shot.

Matt
Posted by Nigel Blake on December 13, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Although the bird is a tad tight to the top of frame it's a very nice and well exposed image, I like it!
Posted by Magnus Hird on December 13, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Edwin, wish I had these locally too! Really nicely taken and a superb perch but also echo Phil's comments about the tightness at the top given the pose, but wouldn't want to crop through those dangling lichens :smile: