Red Bellied Woodpecker

[David Salem]

Taken over the Christmas holiday at Morton NWR In Long Island, NY. Had a few hours of nice light with member Grace Scalzo. A first for me as were most of the birds we shot that morning.

1DMKIV---500mm---f7.1---ss1/800---ISO800---HH@ 8:45am---20% crop

Thanks as always for looking and for your input. Appreciated.

David

[vishaljadhav]

Amazing IQ ,the details in the eye are great. Wonderful exposure and composition

[Davidwilliams]

Love all of it, nothing to change

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very high quality image, excellent detail and beautiful colours, I like the composition but I would consider a slightly looser crop, you may have considered this already and perhaps thought the branch may then appear a little large in the frame??

[Jeannean Ryman]

Very nice shot with a pretty bg and nice details in the bird.

[Marina Scarr]

Fine portrait indeed. Super exposure, detail and colors. Nice perch. Maybe just a tad tight for my taste but regardless this is really a super close up of this species.

[Karl Egressy]

Great pose, showing off the red belly, David. The slanting perch is great so is the background.

[Grace Scalzo]

Very nice, David. That was a great morning. It is tight in the frame, but the lines created by the perch and the bird seem to make it not matter. Nothing like using the 500 with no teleconverters.

[David Salem]

Thanks for the comments everyone.
That was a great morning Grace and I appreciate your help and your friendship. I got quite a few nice shots of species that I dont ever get to see.
I tried some looser comps but as Johnathan mentioned the perch became a bit overbearing so I kept it a little tighter.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi David, love the light in this, which in turn has brought out perfect exposure and colours. What I really like about this, is the hint of indentation of the perch where he has probably started to peck. If I had one wish , it would be to have a touch more space below.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like the pose, perch, and BG. Nice colours too. Beautiful details. Tight as mentioned, but I'm OK with your reasoning of it. I still think you could get away with a bit more room. Processing-wise I'd attempt to eliminate the faint straight line on the BG running along the subject's shoulder/back

[Nick Palmieri]

Really nice as presented. Great perch and nice detail in the bird.

[mohammad reza shahab]

Very high quality image, excellent detail and beautiful colours.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Excellent IQ, Shooting angle & neat BG. Very well exposed. TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice pose and details. shooting angle is nice too

[Frank Schauf]

Excellent Pose and light, good exposure control, nice comp and good ambient.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Lovely pose and excellent IQ. Like seeing the red belly (I remember wondering, when I had just started birding, why this bird was called red bellied)
Could see a looser crop, but I see your point. Very nice image.

[jack williamson]

This is a very good RBW shot David. It is one of the better that I have seen. The overall feel of this is right, the colors, the perch angle, the smooth BG, the perfectly exposed WP. I only wish for a little more top and bottom.

[Don Nelson]

excellent shooting angle and great pose. I like it tight.