Great spotted woodpecker Dendrocopus major

[Jonathan Ashton]

• Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 16.5 (Windows)

Image captured from a hide. There was a family of GSW and there were frequent disagreements. (Adult male on LHS, subadult on RHS)
Cropped to 3:2, a small branch have been removed

Model Name : OM-1
LensModel : OLYMPUS M.40-150mm F2.8
Focal Length (35 mm conversion) : 270.0mm
ISO : 2000
Shutter : 1/2500 sec
F.No. : F4.5
Exposure compensation : 0.0 EV
ACR/PSCC

 

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Jon, I quit like the interaction, but that's about all. It's not really grabbing me in terms of colour and set up.

Cheers
Steve

 

[William Dickson]

Jon. I also like the interaction. These woodies are great to photograph when things like this happen. IMO the whole image needs to be brighter, and slightly warmer. A faster SS would have helped, and a thinner perch. I'm sure you'll have plenty more similar.

Will

 

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great interaction, love it. I wish the branch was smaller, but not much you could do with that.

 

[Brian Sump]

Jon, nice storytelling image.

I think there were some good notes above, particularly the image just feels a little dark and drab. You could selectively bring up some of the whites even and give the image a little more depth but I think overall it could come up.

Also, you had some ISO room to bump the SS and that would have frozen the wings a bit more.

I think it's a really great frame though and some minor adjustments could go a long way!

 

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Jon ... great action shot and do love the incoming aggression of the back bird !!! :cheers:
I am ok with the overall " drabness " as per Brian ... what bothers me personally way more is the presence of the cyans /blues in the plumages , might be my personal color fetish :t3:bg3:.
The perch might be not the nicest one , just because of it´s diameter ... but hey if things happening there , fine.

Nonetheless a shot to enjoy

TFS Andreas