Black-Cheeked Woodpecker

[Doug Brown]

During my Costa Rica workshop with Greg, we spent a day near Arenal Volcano photographing birds at a small nature sanctuary. Their feeder was quite busy with an assortment of beautiful birds. The problem was that it was difficult to get a clean BG. This Black-Cheeked Woodpecker chose one of the few perches with a nice BG, and I managed a few good frames of him.



Canon 1D Mark IV, 500mm + 1.4x, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 1600, manual exposure, fill flash, tripod

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Doug! I like the sharpness, details, HA and exposure. Good use of the fill flash as well.

[Mike Milicia]

Beautiful capture of a beautiful bird!
Excellent exposure, pose, and detail!

[Greg Basco]

Doug, great portrait. Your treatment of the soft light with fill-flash looks fantastic. ISO 1600 looks quite good.

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Peter Farrell]

Superb WP image,Doug. I love that he is on such a thin perch. Asome exposure and detail. I really like the mix of yellow and red on this guy.
Peter

[Dan Brown]

Great work Doug! I really love the colors on this guy. Very nice BG with the lighter area behind the birds upper body!

[Pieter de Waal]

A beautiful bird, lovely colours and pose captured with great detail.

[Bill Dix]

Lovely one, Doug. Gorgeous bird, with great colors, perfect body position and HA, terrific detail and BG.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Doug, this is awesome. Terrific sharpness and excellent angle...which is hard with woodpeckers, I guess. So well done.

Is the WB a little on the cooler side? I reckon, WB will be very tricky in these conditions.

[Dave McGowen]

I'm partial to Wood peckers anyway and I really like this shot. Nice background and sharpness through out.

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent detail Doug, and the sharpness is tops. I do like te overall colours, and well done on getting a clean BG - I know how difficult it is at feeders to position yourself for a clear BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

Excellent Doug, really love this one, you handled everything nicely.

[James Salywoda]

Excellent!! beautiful bird colors and detail another sweet shot from your workshop.

[Doug Brown]

Thank you for taking the time to comment folks!

[Harshad Barve]

Doug ,

You have some seriously inspirational images from Costa Rica , this is yet another Gem
TFS

[Craig Brelsford]

You've brought out the beauty of this woodpecker quite well, Doug. It's nice to see a woodpecker shot in which the woodpecker is not crowded out by a thick tree trunk.

[Doug Brown]

It's nice to see a woodpecker shot in which the woodpecker is not crowded out by a thick tree trunk.

Thanks Craig! That's one of the things I liked most about this image.