Great Spotted Woodpecker

dogcraig · 22 Jan 2011

A typical day sitting in the hide. For an hour the light was great but no birds. Light fades birds turn up. Well at least the GSW turned up.

Thanks for looking. Feedback always welcome

Angie · 22 Jan 2011

That's impressive, love this shot

Pebbles9x · 22 Jan 2011

That sounds so familiar lol, a great shot though :clap:

Viking · 23 Jan 2011

A good image, but I feel that the crop is too tight.

John

Trev4 · 23 Jan 2011

Its a good portrait shot with nice detail on the head and eye. If your going to crop this close, you really could do with a deeper depth of field to keep the detail in the side feathers and claws. Still a pleasing picture

tony4563 · 23 Jan 2011

Lovely shot

dogcraig · 23 Jan 2011

Trev4 said:
Its a good portrait shot with nice detail on the head and eye. If your going to crop this close, you really could do with a deeper depth of field to keep the detail in the side feathers and claws. Still a pleasing picture

This was actual shot in landscape but I thought it looked better as a portrait as otherwise there would have been a lot of dead space either side. Again light was poor and was not really able to use a larger aperture to improve DOP. Also the GSW was only 5M away which obviously minimises DOP.

This second image was taken today same issue with light. I managed to rotate the camera in to the portrait position with out disturbing him so not much of a crop on this one.

Trev4 · 23 Jan 2011

dogcraig said:
This was actual shot in landscape but I thought it looked better as a portrait as otherwise there would have been a lot of dead space either side. Again light was poor and was not really able to use a larger aperture to improve DOP. Also the GSW was only 5M away which obviously minimises DOP.

This second image was taken today same issue with light. I managed to rotate the camera in to the portrait position with out disturbing him so not much of a crop on this one.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=102981

Thanks Craig, we never seem to get the perfect conditions do we, so a lot of compromising is needed, but you still did good. The second posting is the better of the two by far imo, thanks for sharing

moochas · 23 Jan 2011

well i think its awesome, both shots are, the detail in the eye and head is perfect!!

htid · 23 Jan 2011

Both look good to me, pin sharp on the head..must have been pretty close!

middlearthimages · 23 Jan 2011

Both good but second my fav as you can see the iris and eye colour in this one.

john

dogcraig · 23 Jan 2011

Trev4 said:
Thanks Craig, we never seem to get the perfect conditions do we, so a lot of compromising is needed, but you still did good. The second posting is the better of the two by far imo, thanks for sharing

I spent over 10 hours in the hide over Christmas and not even a sniff. So quiet please but still room for improvement. This is what makes photographing birds so interesting and challenging.

I had the Sparrowhawk land on top of one of the feeders today, but he was less than 3M away so no shot. I've only being trying to catch him for two years!!