Xiao Cai
April 2025 - Tufted Titmouse
About the Image(s)
Description: This photo was taken on 3/4/2025 in New York Central Park. There are many birds in New York Central Park in the spring season. A Tufted Titmouse is a very small, very active bird. I like its cute look. In the post-process, I adjusted the lighting and cleaned the background.
Camera: Nikon Z8, Lens: 500mm, Exposure: 1/2500 sec at f/8.0, ISO 1000.
What do you think? I welcome any comments and suggestions. Thanks.
4 comments posted
Xiao, welcome to Group 5! I hope you'll find it as enjoyable, rewarding, and educational as I have.
Your image is both lovely and very well done! Small, active birds are a real challenge to photograph. The bird's sharpness and your image's composition are superb. Nicely done!
There's one modification you might consider. The branch at the bottom of the image has a repeating pattern that might draw the viewer's attention away from the bird. You could consider removing it. Here's an example of how it would look.
Posted: 04/13/2025 20:02:16
Your image is both lovely and very well done! Small, active birds are a real challenge to photograph. The bird's sharpness and your image's composition are superb. Nicely done!
There's one modification you might consider. The branch at the bottom of the image has a repeating pattern that might draw the viewer's attention away from the bird. You could consider removing it. Here's an example of how it would look.
Posted: 04/13/2025 20:02:16
Hi Xiao, welcome to the group
I think this is a beautiful capture of a delightful small bird. Love the soft background. I thought you could go a step further than Pete's suggestion and get rid of the sticks on the left and then a crop. If you thought that was too tight then expand the canvas to restore some of the negative space. Posted: 04/14/2025 03:52:48
I think this is a beautiful capture of a delightful small bird. Love the soft background. I thought you could go a step further than Pete's suggestion and get rid of the sticks on the left and then a crop. If you thought that was too tight then expand the canvas to restore some of the negative space. Posted: 04/14/2025 03:52:48
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Xiao Cai, your Tufted Titmouse is absolutely stunning and sharp. You caught him in a perfect pose. I hope you don't mind but I think that some of the branches and sticks like Pete mentioned are distracting. I took the liberty of getting rid of the branches and tried a 180 flip to create a leading line branch. I do know that in PSA Competitions you are not allowed to do this. What do you think? Posted: 04/18/2025 17:31:08
Welcome to the group Xiao.
What a beautiful image of the bird. I agree with the comments that the there are too may distracting branches. Of the versions suggested I would prefer Mark's and if you decided to flip an image I would again use Mark's. Posted: 04/21/2025 08:19:10
What a beautiful image of the bird. I agree with the comments that the there are too may distracting branches. Of the versions suggested I would prefer Mark's and if you decided to flip an image I would again use Mark's. Posted: 04/21/2025 08:19:10