Woody Woodpecker

Hi Guys,

Just a Great spotted Woodpecker i photographed during a session in the woods where i host my Forest-birds 1:1 workshops. A great place where at this moment there are 4 Great spotted Woodpeckers visiting the feeding stations on a daily base.

Greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Canon Eos 1D Mark3
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Aperture: F 7,1
Exposure mode: AV
Exposure compensation: - 2 1/3
Flash:no
Flash exposure compensation: -
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: AI Focus
ISO: 800
Lens: Canon 500mm F4
Focal length: 650 mm
AF mode: Auto Focus
On tripod & Wimberley Sidekick from hide
Levels/Curves/USM/Contrast/Saturation/Noise Ninja/My own mix-Sharpening
Bibble Pro / Adobe Photoshop CS4

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Cracking shot Jeroen.. Superb detail in the face but feel it drops of a little in the lower part of the wing. Maybe at f8.0-f10 would have brought that all into focus.. Otherwise it's better than anything I've ever achieved with these birds so would be extremely happy with it..

Brett

Great clean image again Jeroen. Exposure spot on for me and the slight oof on the lower wing doesn't distract me.

Rob

Looks good to me

Beautiful clean sharp image Jeroen.

Keith.

Superb! Fantastic detail in this. I had my first shot at these over the weekend and didn't get close enough. If I get one as good as this, I'll be ecstatic.

very nice, althopugh I agree that in this case a bit more DoF would have been nice...

Lovely photo, great detail+light, love the perch Jeroen

Good stuff.
A tiny bit "hard " on my monitor but no big deal.
Cheers
johnR