Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

[Papathanassi]

Canon 1DS 11, 500mm at 5.6, ISO 400, 1/320 Shutter speed, and a lot of patience. Left the colour space as Adobe RGB.

[Xris]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

I'd be pleased with this. Good pose, sharp focus, good background. Just a tadge flat in IMHO, would benifit form a bit of light, but hey you've done the business with what was there on the day.

Nice post

Regards chris

[Suze]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

Lovely composition and detail. Agree with Chris but a superb image all the same.
Suze

[DCINNC]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

It may look flat as its still in adobe RGB-why did you not change it for web use to Srgb as it will make the colours better-nice study anyway

Dave

[Papathanassi]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

Thanks, Chris, Suze, and Dave,
I have tried every way possible to improve the light in photoshop, but this is one I could not improve. The light was poor on the day, I will go back and put the same image on again and asign the RGB profile as Dave suggests, If you could tell me how it looks then.
I don't think it will make a lot of difference though. I do have a calibrated monitor so it will be an interesting excercise.
Papa

[Papathanassi]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait



This is the RGB profile

[Xris]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

Have to say I can't see much between the two. But looking at them at home, rather than on my work monitor, it's much better.

Chris

[RuthieC]

Re: Male Great Spotted Woodpecker Portrait

Wow - I am impressed that you were able to get the picture of woodpecker, they are so shy. It must have taken you ages to get that picture