Red-belted Woodpecker

[CM Prince]

Red-belted Woodpecker taken today at Rocky Point CG COE, TX.

Nikon D750, Tamron lens 150-600 mm
1/1000 at f / 8.0
ISO 1250
600 mm
tripod

All C & C greatly appreciated.


Just trying to improve.


Thanks in advance for looking and any reply.


C M

[Diane Miller]

I like the composition and crop, although I would consider removing the two small branches that exit the frame, UR and LL.

I wonder if something has degraded your IQ here -- it has a look that suggests a very "small" (as in compressed) JPEG, although the image size posts normally. Is it a huge crop? Something more than sharpness seems an issue here -- more like resolving power. Maybe in spite of the tripod and what could (maybe) be a reasonable shutter speed, there is some camera shake? A tripod isn't a guarantee of sharpness.

[CM Prince]

Some changes made



Thanks Diane for the reply

C M

[Diane Miller]

Looks good. Maybe do a very judicious bit of sharpening on the output JPEG. (Only sharpen a full-sized master file if you really are confident of not causing artifacts that will be enhanced with resizing from output.)