Passerini's Tanager

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

Another "harder" bird from Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica.
Actually common as muck lol but that flaming red rump along witht he dense black plumage conspires against.

NR to BG and very light to bird, levels to reset white/black points, taken in dim light evening time.

7D 100-400 f 5.6 tripod, ISO 800 eV -2/3 1/125

Hope you like him

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Good looking bird, I like the head turned towards you and good detail in the black area's TFS.

[Morkel Erasmus]

lovely pose from a lovely bird
but to me the blacks look closed-up and the fine detail is very smooth - why did you run noise reduction on the bird?? It destroys fine detail and makes the plumage look as smooth as silk which is not what you want

[Rachel Hollander]

Great pose and eye. I agree with Morkel that some of the blacks look choked and also some of the reds look hot. I also find the bright top of the perch distracting. I see that you say you ran some light NR on the bird, curious as to why.

TFS,
Rachel

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

TBH I struggled with this bird lol

Yes very light NR on bird, some luminaNce noise using this did not appear to affect detail, 7d is very unforgiving at that ISO . BUT I agree it doesn't help detail and I only do this well I feel it gives a reasonable result
Also ran Ev negative to keep shutter up, and was thinking to hold down the reds,,. The red on this species is really dazzling bright and too often just flats out. Histo does not show any blown red.
The black is also extremely black in real life with little natural differentiation visible between feathers, making it a hard bird indeed.(IMO). I probably underexposed too much

I will do a rerun and post the species again though likely a different shot, I see I have a few better ones :-)


thanks, your comments appreciated

[Richard Unsworth]

Repost

(test, reactivated color management Firefox, turned off when updated?)

Note image darkened on posting, parameters all seem fine this side; been unable to find out why?

my jpegs when saved for web and reloaded to CS5 look exactly the same as the tiff
but when I post them here they darken; I will post to my site and recheck - feedback, also darkens so not bpn specific, conclude browser issue? -soz talking to myself lol