I think the 70-200L may well be an improvement ...

[tertius]

sorry more woodpeckers ... its just they are rather convenient subjects right now ...

These were taken with the 70-200 and the 1.4x TC











To see the other pictures taken with the 75-300 F4-5.6 III for comparison go to:

http://www.tertius.me.uk/Woodpecker.html

[CVP]

Number 4 is lovely, top picture.

Cheers

Chris

[Furyous]

The last ones great, good work Dan.

[Gemm]

Are they heavily cropped? To be honest, I don't think the image quality looks that good, maybe because they are over sharpened?

[SpydieNut]

Gemm said:

Are they heavily cropped? To be honest, I don't think the image quality looks that good, maybe because they are over sharpened?

agreed - but is this a DOF issue?

[tertius]

Gemm said:

Are they heavily cropped? To be honest, I don't think the image quality looks that good, maybe because they are over sharpened?

They have been cropped, resized and sharpened. Also because I was in a hurry I just worked on the JPG not the RAW, and I used irfanview as its quick.

I have to confess that post-processing is a real weakness for me - for example when resizing for PH is it better to resize a large image A LOT or a small image A LITTLE or try to use a 100% crop directly to the right size?

[Matt H]

I am with you on the post processing, I am crap at it - I enjoy taking the pics rather than playing with them.

[cuneus]

If you zoom in a lot they are quite jagged and have some fairly severe haloing

also crap at processing

I am also struggling with a very long shot of a green woodpecker - would the images help as a comparison ?