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Great Tit - Sýkorka (Slovak)


Great Tit - Sýkorka (Slovak)
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Copyright: Stefan Kardos (stevkds) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 276 W: 11 N: 411] (1789)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-02-04
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 5D, Canon EF 400mm f5.6L USM
Exposure: f/11, 1/400 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-02-05 18:28
Viewed: 827
Points: 38
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Great Tit, Parus major, is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe and Asia in any sort of woodland. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate.

It is an easy tit to recognise, large in size at 14 cm, with a broad black line (broader in the male) down its otherwise yellow front. The neck and head are black with white cheeks and ear coverts. Upperparts are olive. It has a white wingbar and outer tail feathers. In young birds the black is replaced by brown, and the white by yellow.

There are many races of this widespread species, but they fall into three groups. Birds in temperate Europe and Asia are essentially green above and yellow below. Great Tits in China, Japan and southeastern Russia are green above and white or yellow-tinged white below, and birds in India and southeast Asia are grey above and whitish below.

It is, like other tits, a vocal bird, and has a large variety of calls, of which the most familiar is a "teacher, teacher", also likened to a squeaky wheelbarrow wheel. Interestingly, the birds from the two south Asian groups of races do not recognise the calls of the temperate Great Tits, and they may be a separate species.

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Hi Stefan,
Excellent shot on this Great Tit. Nice frame filling composition. A spot on exposure has the colors and detail in the plumage looking superb. Nice seperation from the OOF backround.
Scott

Hi Stefan,
Cute little bird, very nicely captured.
Sharp and neat.
Excellent shot.

Ben Lakitan

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3800 W: 190 N: 11298] (34839)
  • [2007-02-06 1:11]

Hello Stefan,
Fine sharp capture of a Great Tit with excellent lighting and BG presented in a good composition. I can't really fault this shot and it is one of the best on TN with this POV of this popular bird.
TFS and best wishes, Ivan

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  • fiyo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 987 W: 5 N: 2759] (10600)
  • [2007-02-06 1:23]

Hello Stefan,
very nice capture; sharpness, colors, light, composition, everything is very good !

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  • GLEM Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 526 W: 87 N: 697] (6115)
  • [2007-02-06 2:54]

hi Stephan,
tu as plus de réussite que moi, le résultat est vraiment bon.
Joli contre jour qui lui donne une belle couleur.

tfs

Nice compo and background.TFS

Hello Stefan,

well done great colors bG POV DOF perfect detail svery crisp nicly composed and captured photo excllent work

TFS Kyle

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2983 W: 162 N: 911] (2687)
  • [2007-02-06 10:08]

Hello
Very nice capture of this Great Tit. Great sharpness and beautiful lighting. Looks very good against the neutral background.
TFS, Ulla

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3581 W: 143 N: 5669] (18529)
  • [2007-02-06 10:32]

Hi Stefan.
Amazing close-up picture with excellent composition and very expressive (despite grey colour tone) BG. I like your POV, exactly selected DOF, perfect details and colours of the tit. You have faced a well-known problem reflection of white color at dark BG. White spots on the head and tail are OE. If you will solve this problem your picture will be irreproachable. Well done and my best wishes.
Alexei.

Ciao Stefan, magnific composition with this splendid great tit, wonderful colors, great pose, lovely details, very well done, ciao Silvio

Bonjour Stefan
C'est une très jolie présentation que ce bel oiseau. Les couleurs sont ravissantes, très beaux détails et beau BG bien réussi.Il y a une légère surexposition au niveau des blancs.
Bravo et merci Passe une belle journée .......JP

Hello Stefan,
I see very good DOF, and the closeup is well composed. Hard to expose these birds with the black & white patched head, but you did a good job of it..Sharp & detailed.
Well done & TFS!

Nice shot Stefan the detail looks great with nice background nicely composed good Write up. TFS Best rgds Necip.

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2169 W: 218 N: 4382] (14898)
  • [2007-02-09 4:18]

Hi Stefan

This is really a beautiful capture from you!
The colors here are terrific and the details very clear and sharp, on this cute great tit.
The POV is also very nice and the DOF is excellent, blurring the BG nicely and isolating your subject very well.
Nicely composed an presented, too.

Bravo and TFS
Horia

Hi Stefan,
I love tits!
Nice shot, really detailed.
Andrea

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  • SkyF Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2244 W: 188 N: 1929] (8127)
  • [2007-02-10 8:50]

Hello Stefan,
very nice composition, and the details are so beautiful.The bird fills the frame very nicely. Excellent closeup with wonderful colors and sharpness.
Sky

bonjour stephan
les joues sont OE mais les details sont tres bons sur le reste du plumage.
BG bien flou.
bravo.
laurent

hi stefan!
fine picture on the great tit!
sharp with good pov and dof
nice background to
well done!

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  • Debz Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 516 W: 0 N: 846] (3307)
  • [2007-03-08 16:54]

Well what a great shot of the Great Tit! I can never catch them as they are so fast. Love the DOF and sharpness, wonderful depth of color

tfs debz

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