Downy Woodpecker

[John Mack]

Downy woodpecker female at the feeder setup. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Medium crop.

Canon 5D MarkIII
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 2500
f9.0
1/500sec

[Dorian Anderson]

This is really nice, particularly with the snow. I'm shocked that f/9 didn't get the whole perch in focus, but I do appreciate
the nice sharp view of his foot.

[Randy Stout]

Really nice one here, with snow, composition, interesting perch. Well exposed.

The perch must be angled a bit away from us, but fortunately the bird in within the DOF.

Cheers

Randy

[annmpacheco]

Love a bird, any bird in the snow, well done here John, it all works and bird looks sharp. TFS

[David Salem]

Great looking bird and pose you have here. The perch is nice and I like the falling snow too. I think f9 might have been a bit much and it looks like you could have given up some f stop for lower ISO as the image is a bit noisy, especially the BG. Another round of NR to the BG only will help this one for sure. Well done

[Daniel Cadieux]

I was also thinking that the perch looks angled away from us with the bottom part falling out of dof range. I love the bit of mosses on it, as well as the snow.