Great Kiskadee

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

Captured Puerto Viejo Costa Rica in the evening time

other frames indicate this may be in fact a White-ringed Flycatcher also common in the area, however bill looks too strong to me.

Branches taken out from rhs and BG blended with low opacity clone tool

1/50 iso 800 eV -.33 f5.6 tripod Canon 7D and 100-400

[Marina Scarr]

Nice portrait of this great bird. Had the opportunity to see my first one in Texas last year. Nice exposure and lovely colors and BG. Bird appears to need a tad more sharpening.

[Jim Crosswell]

Nice image Richard. I like the pose, HA and BG. I see a cloning mark just below the beak that you might want to eliminate.

[Richard Unsworth]

Jim, thanks, mark removed; sometimes the tool will throw a little ghost part of image and you know and missed that one as I smoothed that area.

Marina, thanks - sharpened a little more this time around. They are lovely arent they

[gail bisson]

IQ is great on this one.
Lovely bg.Just fix that clone mark and you have a winner,
Gail

[Nancy Bell]

Good repost. That lovely dark green bkgd really sets off the yellows in the bird.

[Peter Dexter]

Very nice photo and I think it is a Great Kiskadee and not a White-rined Flycatcher.