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Green Rosella (Tasmanian endemic)
As far as I can tell there is only one previous image on BPN of this species, namely a gorgeous shot by Paul Burdett of the bird with 'posy' of red berries, posted on 11 May 2018. The species is endemic to the island state of Tasmania, southeastern Australia, and is the most colorful of the state's 12 endemic avian species. This image shows the variety of shades of green on the dorsal surfaces which give the species its common name. Can't help feeling this one smiled for the camera...
Location: Hobart eastern shore, southern Tasmania
Equipment: Canon EOS 5D IV, EF 100-400 L IS II + 1.4x III TC, at 560mm, centre spot servo AF, handheld, manual exposure, 1/800 sec, f/9, ISO 1000, spot metering
Processing: Lightroom Classic CC for RAW conversion and initial adjustments, then Photoshop CC, where final noise reduction using Neat Image was applied to the bird+perch only. The background was separately treated with Gaussian Blur to subdue distracting details. Final sharpening was applied to the bird only, after size reduction to web submission dimensions. There is a problem which was present all the way from the RAW file, beyond me to fix and which I'll leave people to spot, hopefully it doesn't detract too much.
Comments and suggestions welcome as always,
Cheers, David