Critique 'Check me out' - Blue Tit showing off to the lens

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This Blue Tit was displaying for a few minutes, I think it may have reacted to the reflection in the lens??

Thank you for looking

Edit: New edit below

Gav



Blue tit by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr
 
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It's sharp enough for sure. Personally, I'd crop it to straighten and to lose the surrounding branches. They kind work as a frame but I prefer simpler scenes, make it all about the bluetit. Don't fill the frame witrh it though, let it breathe, you have tons of diffuse background to play with as well as space for it to look into. A clever crop will get the bluetit on a 3rd.

The snipped ends of the sprigs pull my eye a little too, away from the bluetit, a simple spot heal here and there would sort that. (y)

The exposure is very good, with some detail in the whites.
 
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Dale. said:
It's sharp enough for sure. Personally, I'd crop it to straighten and to lose the surrounding branches. They kind work as a frame but I prefer simpler scenes, make it all about the bluetit. Don't fill the frame witrh it though, let it breathe, you have tons of diffuse background to play with as well as space for it to look into. A clever crop will get the bluetit on a 3rd.

The snipped ends of the sprigs pull my eye a little too, away from the bluetit, a simple spot heal here and there would sort that. (y)

The exposure is very good, with some detail in the whites.
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Thanks Dale, I'll get on it, it was taken up the local wood the tree is just coming into bud, but now you mention them I see they are distracting, new edit below
 
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I think that's a better crop with less distractions.

Also, being taken on the fly as you mention, you've done well.
 
Yep the second one works better
 
The edit works very well- good advice from Dale too :)


Les
 
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