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Bill Dix
08-06-2018, 10:06 AM
Shot in Tobago in March of 2016. Taken in the rain from the upper balcony of the Cuffie River Lodge.

D7200, 500f4 + 1.4 TC, ISO 3200, 1/2500s @ f/7.1 manual.
Isaac Grant
08-06-2018, 12:43 PM
Everything is very pretty here Bill. The perch and the background look great. Small in frame bird works very well and although the bird is angled away from us I am OK with that as it is feeding on that flower. The image seems a little too smoothed over and a bit unnatural. I would see if you can rework that but not sure how well that camera handles high ISO.
John Mack
08-06-2018, 07:27 PM
Really like the colors through out the image. The rain is a nice touch. Comp works for me.
Dorian Anderson
08-06-2018, 08:53 PM
The flower really make this image, Bill! They are a great complement to this most iconic and seemingly pan-tropical bird. Rain is great. The high ISO does show a bit with a lack of complete crispness., but it is a beautiful result despite that technical point.
annmpacheco
08-07-2018, 01:00 PM
Hi Bill, I agree with above comments, such a lovely bird feeding and great colors, maybe some improvement with a redo... high ISO wasn't kind to you here...
Daniel Cadieux
08-07-2018, 02:15 PM
I love the colours. Neat perch, good BG. I'd try a version with no NR to the bird, flowers, and perch (in other words, NR to BG only). It should sow well for web at this size, especially if you did not need to raise the exposure during processing.
Geoffrey Montagu
08-07-2018, 09:04 PM
Good one, Bill. We were very lucky to have that covered balcony for some great captures in the rain, and at eye level. Nice rich colors and great detail. Like the open composition.

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Bill Dix
08-09-2018, 10:31 AM
Thank you all. The D7200 that I was shooting two years ago is fairly good with high ISO, but not as good as my D500 and certainly not up to the standard of a good full-frame. That said, I'm not sure what happened to this one. I never run NR uniformly on the entire image. I will sometimes run a very slight dose on the subject, and more on the BG, which is probably what I did here (but I can't always remember what I did yesterday, much less two years ago). I'm not in a position to re-process it at the moment; maybe when my wing heals.