Great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus major)

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hand held image captured in the back garden

OM-1 150-400TC
Focal Length (35 mm conversion) : 561.0mm
Exposure mode : Manual exposure
ISO : 1600
Exposure compensation : -0.3 EV
Shutter : 1/1000 sec
Aperture : F4.5

ACR/PSCC

[Colin Driscoll]

A pleasing shot, love the green theme.
Could be a bit higher in the frame though to allow for the imaginary tail and a little more space for the bird to look into.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Jon ... a funny " peek-a-boo " shot of the WP.
Nice soft light and I do like the somehow deep colors and tones .... personally I would move the crop down and reduce the blues in the plumage , other than that pretty much perfect for me.

Very nice job in processing

TFS Andreas

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thank you Colin and Andreas, the image was that crop because the base of the image was rather messy, I suppoe I could have recropped using a little PSCC magic. I can't remember now if I did remove some blues in the plumage - more than likely I did so maybe a little more.