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Blue Tit Investigates
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This blue tit in my garden thinks it is time to start nesting and so is investigating a nesting box we put out. The shot was taken from behind the kitchen window since I didn’t want to go outside and disturb the blue tit. Sony a350 with Sony G series 70-300mm lens stretched to its limits. The image was then cropped and selectively sharpened (using a layer mask in Photoshop) to try to get the bird to pop from the dark and cluttered background. A tiny bit of extra saturation added again to help the pop. I don’t often take photos of birds so I can’t claim any real experience but I hope you like the results. More on my flickr in the Spring 2009 set. DSC06782.
[...] A while back I posted a picture of a blue tit investigating the bird box we had put in our garden. Now the blue tit has nested and it appears there may well be some young. Here a shot of the blue tit bringing back some food probably for the babies. We will have to wait and see if we can get any photos of the new babies. A Sony a350 and Sony 70-300 mm lens was used along with processing in Aperture, Photoshop and Noise Ninja. This shot hasn’t been posted to flickr yet, but here’s a link to my “most interesting” photos. DSC01497 Share and Enjoy: [...]