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    #1

    Nuthatch

    I don't often do woodland birds, but saying that, I have some glaring omissions and one is the Nuthatch. My previous shots of Nuthatches have been mediocre, mostly because the li'll devils flit around so quickly that by the time I point a lens at them, they're gone.

    One of my challenges for 2019 is to produce some reasonable shots of a nuthatch, Marsh Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Jay and Green Woodpecker.

    Here's the Nuthatch:

    C18I5375a by Colin Cross, on Flickr
    Colin
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    #2
    Re: Nuthatch

    That is a truly superb shot Colin, nice pose, pin sharp revealing lovely detail and good composition.

    Bill.
    7D, 400D, EF-S 15-85 f3.5/5.6, EF 100 f2.8 USM macro, Sigma 10-20 f4/5.6, Sigma 70-300 f4/5.6 APO, Sigma 50 f1.4, EF 28-90, EF 90-300, Sigma 150-600C, 430 EXll, Yongnuo 568 EX ll, Yongnuo Triggers, Yongnuo YN14-EX Ring Flash

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      #3
      Re: Nuthatch

      Very nice and look much better on Flickr.

      John

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        #4
        Re: Nuthatch

        Originally posted by Swanny48 View Post
        Very nice and look much better on Flickr.
        Agree

        Stunning shot Colin, lovely eye detail......
        Regards
        Lez

        5Ds // 5D Mark III //         7D Mark II // 16-35 f4L // 24-70 f2.8L II //         24-105 f4L II // 70-200 f4 L // 70-200 f2.8 Lis II // 50 f1.2L // 85 f1.8 //100 f2.8Lis // 200 f2.8L // 300 f4Lis // 1.4ex // .......... and a longer wish list

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          #5
          Re: Nuthatch

          Well you've achieved perfection with that shot Colin, lovely detail. One point I may have just cloned out that bit of dead wood in the LH corner
          Trev

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            #6
            Re: Nuthatch

            One point I may have just cloned out that bit of dead wood in the LH corner
            I did consider that Trev and tried a quick removal, but it looked better with it there:

            • It was there.


            • It "Holds in" the left side of the image.


            • Compositionally, it echoes the perch the Nuthatch was on.


            However, on further reflection, perhaps it needs some tweeking so that it doesn't attract the eye away from the main subject. I'll have a go at darkening it down a little ........... or maybe a lot!
            Colin

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              #7
              Re: Nuthatch

              Lovely shot, Colin.

              I have a similar list of "bogey" birds (it's a lot longer, to be honest!). Nuthatches are too few and far between and although jays are plentiful I just can't get close enough!
              Chris
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                #8
                Re: Nuthatch

                nice detail and makes a change from the classic sort of pose which are usually shot
                Stan - LRPS, CPAGB, BPE2*

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                  #9
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                  Nice work
                  Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way

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                    #10
                    Re: Nuthatch

                    Yesterday I saw and photographed my first ever Nuthatch, but it comes nowhere near as good your superb shot Colin.
                    Gary Cantwell LSINWP. ASINWP.

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                      #11
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                      Originally posted by leeperry View Post
                      Yesterday I saw and photographed my first ever Nuthatch, but it comes nowhere near as good your superb shot Colin.
                      My first ever was a very poor image, but I kept it and that spurred me on to get better ones. I especially remember my first Kingfisher image; seen the other side of a lake I used a 500mm + 2x and a 1.4x stacked and in poor light. I got a tiny, slightly fuzzy blue thing in the middle of the frame, but it was my first Kingfisher. It can only get better.
                      Colin

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                        #12
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                        Lovely shot Colin. Makes a change from the normal nuthatch pose.

                        Brian
                        http://www.cbnatureimages.co.uk

                        http://www.flickr.com/photos/101212171@N02/

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                          #13
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                          Keep this up Colin & your list of great shots will be complete by summer. If they are all as good as this it will be some portfolio.
                          Dave

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                            #14
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                            This one's for Trev.

                            He made a suggestion and it got me thinking. I think darkening the dead wood in the LH corner has improved the shot.

                            C18I5375b by Colin Cross, on Flickr
                            Colin

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                              #15
                              Re: Nuthatch

                              Well done Colin

                              Tom

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