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Great Tit for Joe (Joey)


Great Tit for Joe (Joey)
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Copyright: Gert Ellstrom (ellis49) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3387 W: 343 N: 9480] (30807)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-10-05
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon 30D, Canon Ef 400mm /F5.6 L USM, Digital RAW 400
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/100 seconds
Details: Tripod: Yes
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Joe's Favourites 2, For Joey, The tits, chickadees. [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-04-12 4:10
Viewed: 1822
Points: 34
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
First I will thank all for the nice comments and words of my previous posts.

Today’s post is dedicated t our young friend Joe (Joey).
I saw he have dedicated a lot of bird portraits, so I think he need on too.;-)
I have followed his way here on TN since he started and he has grown miles since his start.
It’s nice to see young people with great eagerness to learn photographing and also listen to more experience photographer as he has done.
So this Great tit is for you my young friend.


PLS
No points for this, I have given them up like some others. I have turn of the points, so don’t waste your green ones


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.
Any hole will do for a nest, and it will readily take to nest boxes. The number in the clutch is often very large, but seven or eight white eggs, spotted red, are normal, with bigger clutches being laid by two or even more hens. The bird is a close sitter, hissing when disturbed.
Like other tits, its food is insects, especially caterpillars when feeding young, and seeds. In England, Great Tits learned to break open the foil caps sealing bottles of milk that had been delivered to homes to get at the cream floating on top. This is a common and popular European garden bird, due to its acrobatic performances when feeding on nuts or seed. It will join winter tit flocks with other species.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi.

Canon 400mm/5.6 L USM, tripod, hide
ISO 400, Raw-format. Spot metering.
Converted, Levels, Contrast, Crop, re-sized to 800 pixels, Smart sharpen
I used Adobe Photoshop CS3 for PP
joey, Gert-Paassen, Proframe, gerbilratz, marhowie, Alex99, jconceicao, Amadeo, maurydv, bobcat08, Tamrock, Juyona, loot, TAZ has marked this note useful
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Hi Gert,

great portrait of these tit.
Good of sharpnees with beautiful saturate colors.

Regards gert

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  • joey Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2001 W: 226 N: 6845] (24727)
  • [2008-04-12 4:30]

Gert,
thankyou so much for this.
This photo is fantastic and I'm honoured to have been dedicated it!
You've been a massive inspiration to me from the start and can't begin to thankyou for that. I'm still trying to work out how you get such incrediblly detailed macros without using flash and how you get so close to the birds you photograph... such as this!
Excellent composition, superb detail, very good DOF.
Thankyou once again!!!!

Joe :-))

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  • Hil Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 705 W: 13 N: 1405] (5027)
  • [2008-04-12 4:40]

Hi Gert

Great close shot of the Great Tit, these birds just laugh at my efforts to get close.
Nicely composed with a excellent pose and a great POV.
Superb feather detail and beautiful colours.
Very nice dedication and lovely words for Joe, I think a few of us have watched his progress and like you say he has come along and leaps and bounds, mainly due to listening to advice from you and many other more experianced guys.

Hil

Hello Gert,

Beautiful dedication to Joe.
I'm sure he will love it.
Perfect sharpness and note.
Great feather details and wonderful color tones.
TFS!!! Have a great evening and Sunday,

Harry

hello Gert, truly amazing close up,perfect,the details, colours and eye contact truly amazing.

excellent work regards h

Good Morning Gert,
Tons of detail, nice color and DOF.
A nice dedication too, Joe's enthusiastic participation is a big plus around here :)
Well done mf,
Howard

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3585 W: 143 N: 5669] (18533)
  • [2008-04-12 7:23]
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Hi, dear Gert.
I do not know what is better. Your words addressed to Joe are so touching and deductive for all of us. Your contribution cannot be overestimated. You wonderful ultra close-up shot is the same. Superb is all. I am impressed with composition (it is precise), wonderful clean colours and details of an every feather and other parts of the bird. Bravo for all.
Alexei.
P.S. Tell me, please, is possible to use this telelens without tripod or not.

Hi Gert,

Superb close up of this interesting bird.Wonderful colours with good sharpness.Fantastic light and detail.

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  • Argus Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3816 W: 190 N: 11348] (34987)
  • [2008-04-12 7:55]
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Hej Gert,
Very fine close-up portrait of a talgoxe with excellent sharpness and details.
A nice tribute to the TN nature photographer with a fine photographic future in front of him, our friend Joe.
Thanks for sharing this fine image,
Hälsningar,
Ivan

Jo den skånska våren är här men det är för molnigt och mörkt för att plåta. Ser fram emot Mallorca om en vecka!

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  • jaycee Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2493 W: 11 N: 6885] (21912)
  • [2008-04-12 9:20]

Hi Gert,

A wonderful and deserved dedication to Joe. A beautiful Great Tit in a Joe style with the Gert touch. Beautiful colors, fine details - an amazing close-up.

Jane

Hola Gert.
Un gran retrato con muy buenos y delicados detalles.
Perfecta la iluminación y muy interesante nota.
Saludos y hasta pronto, JL.

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  • Amadeo Gold Star Critiquer [C: 211 W: 0 N: 755] (3323)
  • [2008-04-12 12:13]

Hola Gert, gran aproximación, con buena luz y color. Un saludo

Bellissimo ritratto di cinciallegra, eccellente nitidezza in condizioni difficili per la poca luce e grande ricchezza di dettagli, molto bella la composizione stretta e POV laterale, molto belli i colori. Grazie e complimenti. Ciao Maurizio

Hello Gert,

Nice that you dedicate this TIT to Joey. A fabulous close up. Superb feather detail and beautiful natural colours. Compo is perfect. Great job. Thansk for sharing and the very interesting notes. Regards and TFS BOB

Hello Gert, Very interesting shot and very very nice eye focus shot. Lovely TFS Vignesh

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  • Tamrock Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 323 W: 0 N: 531] (3107)
  • [2008-04-13 4:23]
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hej gert!
va är detta för fågel?:)
really sharp and fine portrait
on this fine tit!
well done!

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2262 W: 10 N: 2630] (15565)
  • [2008-04-13 13:17]

Hola amigo,
pretty picture and dedication...
the clear plumage, and pleasant color.
amazing shot Gert,
the next Sunday we go to the South Africa
saludos y deliz semana :))

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  • gannu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1169 W: 4 N: 3262] (14691)
  • [2008-04-14 10:19]

Hello Gert, What a shot and superb. Lovely dedication and amazing shot. Well done TFS Ganesh smiley tmrw

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  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2241 W: 47 N: 3167] (10926)
  • [2008-04-18 8:34]

Hello dear Gert,
It is a pleasure for my eyes to see this lovely portrait !
The "+++++" : composition, nice subject, POV, sharpness, details in feathers, DOF, colors, exposure, natural light, instructive complementary note...
The "-" : nothing as usual ;-)
Bravo my old friend and thanks for sharing,
Christian

(Personnal note : thanks for your words and I posted an answer for you)

Hi gert such a close view fantastic
very good sharpness colours and details
I also like the expression of the small face of the bird
well done
Toba

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  • loot Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 5451 W: 594 N: 3650] (10031)
  • [2008-04-18 22:39]
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Hi Gert

How's things my friend. Presently we don't get to talk as often as we used to, but I am sure you know that it is not because of any lack of friendship, respect, or admiration. Fortunately Anna can (and do) keep the Eksteen name active on TrekNature for the moment and I am so proud at what she has accomplished in such a short time on the site. She's really going on strong doesn't she?

As far as this dedication too Joe is concerned, I could not agree more. This is a young man who has hit the site with enthusiasm and he is making an appreciated and valuable contribution. We need more members with this kind of eagerness and passion.

About the birdie – who would I impress to shower you with a wheel barrow full of accolades (of course you would deserve all of it), but you know it (in your humble, unassuming way), I know it (I have seen and appreciated enough of the evidence), the rest of the members know it (they have also seen and experience the Ellstrom magic), and even a blind man can see this was done by a master. Apart from all the technical brilliance there also remains the personal touch and vision. This "little" Great Tit became a Major Tit the moment it settled in front of your lens.

Well done MF and TFS.
Regards
Loot

Hi Gert
This is a good photo with very sharp detail. Well done!

Hello Gert,
Another excellent shot. Awesome details and colors.

KUDOS!!

TFS
Kirti

Gert,
Haven't heard from you in some...
Hope all is well.
I love this shot, you've brought out some very delicate details here.
Goldy

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