Quetzal Vertical Pano

[susanschermer]

Just returned from a trip to Costa Rica and some cooperative quetzals.
This image was created with a 500 mm lens, but the tail wouldn't fit, so I made a second image of the tail and stitched the two together in Photomerge in CS3. Comments appreciated.

[Arthur Morris]

Fantastic. Good thinking with the merge. Love all the curves and the pose. Were you with Todd? Great bird, perch, and colors.

[Don Lacy]

Beautiful bird, the vertical Pano really works well.

[Dan Brown]

Great Quetzal Susan! And, I think it's great that you had the presences of mind to shoot for the photomerge automation! In that type situation, you could also have shot a little to the left and a little to the right and ended up with a huge, high res. image of a beautiful bird! I love the color and sharpness also!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool bird, pose, details and good idea to merge the images, the result looks very good. I'd love to go there sometime.

[susanschermer]

Thank you, All, and thanks, Artie for your kind words. Yes, indeed I went with Todd Gustafson. He helped us nail the quetzals and the weather cooperated.

[Glenn Bartley]

This is so fantastic. Definitely one of the best i've seen of this species....I love the food items in the BG. Awesome!