Chestnut-eared Aracari

[Marc Mol]

It's been too long between Avain postings for me, so here's the beautiful Chestnut-eared Aracari dining on a stick insect in early morning dappled light.

Captured during my recent trip to the Southern Pantanal- Brazil.

Nikon D500
Nikkor 80-400 AF-S
1/1000s
f/5.6
ISO500@ 400mm.

HH, slight crop for comp, curves, levels, TK adj's in ACR & PS CC'17.

Cheers
Marc

[Isaac Grant]

Beautiful bird and I like the prey item. I think the bird is underexposed and also too shaded. I think the shooting angle is too steep and I don't think the busy background is helping you here.

[Marc Mol]

Many thanks Isaac


I think the bird is underexposed and also too shaded. I think the shooting angle is too steep and I don't think the busy background is helping you here.

Agree I couldn't do much about the angle, busy BG and difficult lighting conditions & shading here, but the exposure is correct, see histogram above.