Acorn Woodpecker

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

Her's another clown from Savegre Mountain Lodge, Costa Rica

BG is a house wall

cropped vertical, use low opacity brush to even out BG

7d 100-400 @ 365 ISO 200 1/1000 Ev 0

Low ISO as I was messin'

[Ofer Levy]

The only weakenss in this lovely image IMHO is the un-natural BG. This can be improved as you can see in this repost - just selectively reduced the red.

[Richard Unsworth]

Cool Ofer thanks for that :-)

[Satish Ranadive]

Magnificent image of Woodpecker.I like the pose of bird,perch with nice green leaves and BG in the repost by Ofer.

Regards,
Satish.

[Marina Scarr]

Stunning bird and strong picture. Agree with Ofer on the BG looking unnatural and the repost works well. You may consider a tad more of a vertical crop...maybe a little more room on top.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks Marina

I can try some of these out but I was really pleased with the basic image, despite the weird color and didnt think to adjust the color.

[Melissa Groo]

Lovely image. I think a little more room on top as Marina suggests would be great. Might also try to fix what looks like a sharpening halo behind the head? I prefer Ofer's repost in terms of BG color.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks Melissa


Reposting

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Richard. I like the composition in your repost but it looks a bit over sharpened compared to your OP. I am familar with the building BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

great pose and nice light with sharp details. I prefer getting the BG right in-camera but this one looks nice.

[Richard Unsworth]

Thanks Jim

of all people you would know the house of Mr Chacon!

great guy he is I had the honour of going birding with him, not bad for a guy of 85 years!
can revers and back off the sharp when I put away, only used my normal WF though

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Richard, lovely detail and colours on the woodpecker, and I like the leaning out pose. I would maybe come in from the right a bit.

[PhilCook]

Very nice and to throw a spanner into the works I'll say I like Ofer's version but with the tighter crop, all that aside it's a lovely posture and such a clear eye, must say I'm envious of you lot having Woodpeckers and we dont

[Richard Unsworth]

Thats fine Phil - raw file is here to play with

A Woodpecker less world, what a terrible proposition !

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Great pose and diagonal perch. I like the crop and agree about the bg . I prefer the color of the bg in Ofer's post the best.