Pileated Jump

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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

I am fortunate to have this pileated woodpecker regularly coming in for a taste of our suet block. I managed this capture of him just taking off. It’s a real challenge anticipating when, and what direction he will take off in and in snagging this one I did not have any room leftover on the left or top. The BG is so cluttered I didn’t even try to add any more meat to the BG.

Specific Feedback

Does this still work even though it is so tightly cropped?

Technical Details

Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 13200th, f 8.0, ISO 2800, cropped to 2512 x 2249

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It certainly works as a record shot and proof of great reflexes, Dave. For my taste all the blue fringed branches in the background are a bit of a liability, but still not that bad (my wife said “wow” when she saw it-so there’s you non-photographer audience).

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Hi Dave, nice look at the flared wings. Good catch. All the branches do distract but this is still a unique catch of an intriguing subject.