Young Pileated Portrait

[Joel Eade]

A close up of the newly fledged female Pileated Woodpecker that has been visiting my set up with her father mostly.

1DX
500mm f/4L
ISO 1600
f/4.5
1/800

[Randy Stout]

Joel:

Very sweet, I love their upright hairdo. Open bill, feather detail, exposure and sharpness all good.

A bit of noise creeping into the BG and a processing defect just in front of the bird at the lower frame edge, almost like some errant feathers were removed.

Cheers

Randy

[stuart wanuck]

cool very nice capture

[Karl Egressy]

Excellent portrait, Joel. I like the fine feather details and the HA and eye contact look very good.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great portrait against lovely BG. Nice feathers detail & perfect exposure. TFS

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, hairdo, sharpness and composition. I agree with Randy about the noise and the cloned faint feathers. Excellent image Joel!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the youthful look to this young individual!! Nice tight but well proportioned crop. Noise mentioned and ghosted feathers too.

[Joel Eade]

Joel:

Very sweet, I love their upright hairdo. Open bill, feather detail, exposure and sharpness all good.

A bit of noise creeping into the BG and a processing defect just in front of the bird at the lower frame edge, almost like some errant feathers were removed.

Cheers

Randy Thanks Randy....I agree about the BG noise. I didn't clone anything on this one. The object on the edge is the top of one claw. Probably should have cropped a tad more off the bottom as to exclude it.

[Randy Stout]

Joel:

The funky feather ghosts are right above the claw. I would remove the claw and the feather ghosts .

Cheers

Randy

[Joel Eade]

Repost with NR on BG and ghost feathers/claw removed.

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[Stu Bowie]

Hi Joel, excellent feather detail, and overall well exposed. Your repost has worked out much better.

[Mike Milicia]

Lovely portrait ... excellent pose, comp, and detail.

Agree with cropping a tad from the bottom to eliminate the claw but feather "ghosts" didn't bother me at all.

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful close up.
Excellent details, very nice background, and great comp.
Well done.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice WP. Repost looks very good and love the sharp eye, details on darks and red crest.

[nrohrbacker]

Noise cleaned up well. Great portrait !

[Shawn Zierman]

That is premo facial expression. Great image of this youngster. Repost rocks.

[Satish Ranadive]

Absolutely superb portrait with beautiful colors and great details. I like the red feathers on head,lights and beautiful composition.
Love the frame.

Regards,
Satish.