# Pileated Jump

**URL:** <https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/pileated-jump/38648>\
**Category:** Image Critiques\
**Tags:** birds\
**Created:** [December 23, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/pileated-jump/38648 "2023-12-23T18:15:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Dave\_Douglass](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dave_douglass/32/5332_2.png) [@Dave\_Douglass](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dave_Douglass)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/pileated-jump/38648/1 "2023-12-23T18:15:18Z")

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> **Critique Style Requested:** _Standard_
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> 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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**Author:** ![Dennis\_Plank](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/dennis_plank/32/27033_2.png) [@Dennis\_Plank](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Dennis_Plank)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/pileated-jump/38648/2 "2023-12-23T18:27:38Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Allen\_Sparks](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/allen_sparks/32/63507_2.png) [@Allen\_Sparks](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Allen_Sparks)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2023, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/pileated-jump/38648/3 "2023-12-23T20:32:10Z")

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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.