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Coal Tit on cones

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Posted by Geoffrey Baker on December 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM
Coal Tit on cones
A Coal Tit on my feeding station.
Taken from my home made hide out in the yard.

Sony A350
Sigma 50-500 EX
1/250th second
f8
ISO 400
280mm
+0.7 stop exposure compensation
Centre-weighted metering
Tripod
Posted by Mark Green on December 1, 2010 at 2:16 PM
really nice geoff, perch composition are excellent.exposure is spot on.
they never seem to stay long enough for me to get a pic.

:toast: :toast:
mark.g
Posted by Shaun Simpson on December 1, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Superb image, sharp, lovely composition ticks all the right boxes :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Robert Lawrence on December 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM
Wonderfully detailed image. You hace really controled the exposure in both the whites and the blacks on this.
Posted by keith mitchell on December 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Geoffrey great detailed sharp clean image,superb.
:toast: :toast: :toast:
Keith.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on December 1, 2010 at 3:42 PM
Cracking Geoff in every respect. :wavey: :toast:
Posted by John Robinson on December 1, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Great picture.

Minor nit is the bird in my view would be better placed a little lower in the frame.
No big deal - just my personal view,
Cheers
johnR
Posted by Mark Davies on December 1, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Technically up to usual Geoff standards . Blacks slightly blocking perhaps?A lift in levels to the mids makes it lift a little more. :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on December 1, 2010 at 5:37 PM
Beautiful image Geoffrey love that perch
Posted by PhilH on December 2, 2010 at 11:08 AM
Agree the bird is a little high in the frame... also the blacks do appear to be a little blocked, not easy I know... you don't say if you shot in RAW or not.... I avoid Shadow/Highlight in PS like the Plague and prefer to get this right on conversion... The other way is to use a blip of fill flash...

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on December 2, 2010 at 12:36 PM
Thanks everyone :smile:

Yes Phil, I only shoot RAW.
This was processed for another site maybe over a year ago and just resized for on here.
My processing has no doubt improved a bit since then so the blacks shouldn't be like that on new shots.
I don't own a flash but it's something worth thinking of.

Geoff.
Posted by Roy Bailey on December 2, 2010 at 2:06 PM
Very nice, good pose,and detail.Perch suits bird as does background colour. :toast:
Posted by PhilH on December 2, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Hi Geoff,


'This was processed for another site maybe over a year ago and just resized for on here'

Cheers... that would explain it... resizing an image already prepared for posting will often result in things happening to the image that are not desirable like the blocked shadows, along with contrast and sharpness problems.... Hope you still have the RAW cause reprocessed with your present skills it will be a corker...

Phil