yellow bellied sap SUCKER WITH AN ATTITUDE

[Rob Miner]

Nikon D2XS
200-400mm @ 450mm
675mm (in 35mm film)
1/1000 sec, f/8
Mode: Manual
Metering: Spot
Exp comp: -1
ISO: 800
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
File size: 1,303KB
Image size: 591 x 800
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Sharpness: High
Contrast: Normal
Color profile: Adobe RGB (1998)

C & C's always wanted and welcome.

Rob..............

[Doug Brown]

Hi Rob. The pose is nice but you've got some serious JPG compression artifacting. The file you uploaded is only 87 KB, well under the limit of 200 KB. Fine feather detail looks kind of coarse, perhaps because of the relatively high ISO on that generation of camera body.

[Rob Miner]

Re-try: How do you determine JPG artifact compression?

Rob........

[Doug Brown]

Re-try: How do you determine JPG artifact compression?

Rob........

The BG in your original post looks very blocky with lots of squares of color visible. It has a digitized look to it.

[Rob Miner]

Hey Doug,

Thank you for the critique and help on this forum. If not for people like yourself, as a beginner, I would be in a lot greater trouble.

Rob..........

[Ryan Schain]

Hi Rob,

This looks more like a Red-breasted Sapsucker to me. There is too much red for it to be a yellow-bellied.

[Rob Miner]

Hi Ryan,

It has been confusing looking this one up. Origionally, I thought Red Breasted, but some of the Bird books say all of them are "Yellow breasted" and are of two varities.

I'm lost - I'll take your word for it.

Rob.................

[Ryan Schain]

Hi Ryan,

It has been confusing looking this one up. Origionally, I thought Red Breasted, but some of the Bird books say all of them are "Yellow breasted" and are of two varities.

I'm lost - I'll take your word for it.

Rob.................

Where their ranges overlap, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and the Red-breasted Sapsucker can interbreed, but this looks like a straight up Red-breasted to me :).

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose, setting, head angle and BG. The repost is a good improvement. I would sharpen the bird some more and maybe increase contrast.

[Joel Eade]

Agree with above, also the image has bluish/purplish cast on my monitor. Also it looks like cone marks at the lower part of the perch maybe? Neat species, I haven't seen before.