Greater flameback

[Debapratim Saha]

Image created from the foothill of Darjeeling Himalaya,
Canon 7D,700mm,1/320s,f 6.3,ISO640.
Thanks for looking, your inputs welcome.

[David Policansky]

Very nice image of a spectacular bird. (It looks like a pileated woodpecker, a US bird, that has had gold dust poured on its back!) I like that you can see one toe from its left foot as well. I don't really like the rising branch in front of the bird, but I'm assuming this was a live wild bird in nature, so you take what you can get. Nice overall.

[Debapratim Saha]

Thanks, David... natural light and setting for this wild bird.

[William Dickson]

This is looking real good and 'natural' Everything looks great, it looks as though the bird is focused on some prey on the branch. Well captured.

Will

[Paul Burdett]

Hi Debapratim. This has the wow factor for me...such a colourful bird and tack sharp. Did you do some cloning from the neck to the branch?, as there seems to be a sharp division between the background colour at that point.

[Debapratim Saha]

Hi Paul,
No cloning is done,its a OOF brownish branch against a dark patch.

[John Mack]

Love viewing your images of these awesome birds. This one is quite neat. Really like that flameback!

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like David's description of this bird! The image looks good for the most part, but I would definitely smooth out the hard horizontal line between the subject's chest and the branch.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Debapratim, Excellent IQ here, and I like the overall detail you have captured on this fellow. Good DOF and nice and sharp. Some would say the perch is too big, but Im fine with it, as I never have thin perches in my images.

[Isaac Grant]

Such amazing woodpeckers. I have seen them many times in Thailand but a treat to see here!. Details and perch are nice. I like the vertical branch as I think it adds interest. I agree that I would smooth out that horizontal out of focus branch. Would also increase the exposure a little.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice woodpecker the perch is a bit distracting for me and over powers the bird but it is what it is. The image has a yellow cast on my screen

TFS