Rufous Hornero

I haven't post here very often; just started processing some older images and I thought you might enjoy this little one.


Rufous Hornero - Portrait of Argentina's National Bird
Photographed at Iguazu Falls, AR.

These little *^%# dart all over the place!

This is one of the very first birds I ever captured in Nov 2009 when I seriously started photographing birds. Laid down on the ground with a
Canon 7D, 300 f/2.8 + 2.0XTC (960 focal length), and blasted away at 1/320@f/5.6; ISO 1600.

The Honeros were about 50+' from me; I was determined!

Excellent work Jay. A nice looking bird. Good detail which may benefit from slight sharpening. Is the bird on a man made road or is the ground natural?

Natural ground under/near trees and bushes in the distance.

Hi jay. Nice detail for sure and a good look at the red eye

Nice looking bird, nice feather details and pose.

Solid image of a pretty bird. I like the head and body angle you achieved, and the slight parting of the bill is a nice detail. I enjoy extreme low angle bird photography, so my suggestion here would have been to try getting down lower and stretch out that background even more, creating better subject isolation from the background....I also agree that a bit more sharpening on the subject is worth considering.

imo it looks like the focus is not on the eye and is on the wing, either that or the birds head has moved slightly and you have some image shake.

Hi Jay, good low perspective, and a good HA too. I like the colours in this fellow, and agree, some selective sharpening should bring out the feather detail a little more. I would add a bit to the bottom.

Nice to see someone was not afraid to push the 7D to "high" ISOs...it worked out well. Nice pose with a slight look-back stare from the subject. I agree a bitmore sharpening for web presentation would have been good, and I would have loved a lower angle as per Steve (but realize it is not always possible to do so for a variety of reasons). Nice to see you post here Jay!