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Description
Scarlet-Rumped Tanager, Costa Rica
A fairly common inhabitant of the rain forests
Specific Feedback
all comments welcome
I’d appreciate some better tips to handle reds like this. This is better than my last red bird (a mess) but still not ideal. Thanks in advance!
Technical Details
Sony A1
200-600 @ 600
Date Taken: 2023-01-25 07:19:25
Exposure Time: 1/2000 sec
F Number: f/6.3
ISO Speed Ratings: ISO 6400
Exposure Program: Manual
Metering Mode: Spot
Exposure Bias: 0 EV (Zebras)
Processed with DxO Pure Raw + PS
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I am really enjoying the color scheme in this image. Beautiful pose. Welcome composed. I like the setting. I think this is one of the tanners I missed when I was in Costa Rica.
This doesn’t look oversaturated in the reds, Sandy. Maybe just a bit off in hue (slightly orangish on my monitor). For feather detail I still rely on an old, old Topaz plugin called Detail 3 that gives me lots of fine tuning for ability for bringing out texture in bird feathers. If you’ve ever had Topaz Studio, there’s a version included in it and while they don’t sell it anymore, the last time I checked, you could still download it from their archives and use your old activation code. It has fine, medium and coarse texture sliders and a boost slider for each as well. For very fine detail like this, I’ll use the fine slider at about 22 with a boost of 10 as my starting point and work from there. Wit the great noise reduction software available these days, it really works well.
