Red-crested Korhaan - Close up

[Richard Flack]

Love the colours of these birds. Look forward to your comments.

Location: Waterberg, South Africa
Date taken: 02 June 2012
Photo details:
Canon EOS 7D
100-400mm f5.6
ISO 200
Shutter speed 1/1600
F stop 6.3
Exposure bias -0.3

Notes: Crop, sharpening for web

[Morkel Erasmus]

Nice view of this one, Richard.
How much of a crop is this? To me it seems you lost some image quality from cropping...
The overall plumage also looks a tad too smooth (perhaps noise reduction?) and the background has a look to it that appears as though you applied additional blur - though you may not have...?

[Richard Flack]

Hi Morkel. Thanks for taking the time. Fairly large crop. No NR on the bird but did apply a little lens blur to the BG which I forgot to mention.