Male. Overcast, Under jungle canopy.
(If backgrounds have been removed, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
This is not an easy shot to make under the canopy without fill flash. The black wouldn’t come out this good. The processing looks pretty good except I think the NR has smoothened too much of the bird’s fine feather detail, Dave. What I like to do usually is using a layer mask to brush out (at partial opacity) the effect of the NR.
That is one gorgeous bird and a great pose, David. It’s funny how comparing the perches in your images from Costa Rica and the ones you take at home shows what a real rain forest climate we live in up here-they look identical.
Adhika, this actually was taken with the fill flash at -3 as noted. I thought it was a tiny bit over sharpened so I did a universal topaz universal noise reduction AI later and did not go over the bird itself and remove the noise reduction layer in order to make it look less sharp. I completely redid the image and here is a repost. This time I did not use any noise reduction other than AI clear.
