Brown-hooded Parrot

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Recently I posted an image of this same specie but in a vertical composition as that was how I made the image. To be honest I hate to shoot a picture in one mode and then change to a different mode so I stick with what I composed in the first place.
I am a firm believer of composing and creating the image in camara as much as possible.
For this one I only had to wait one morning, set up a bunch of bananas and wait for the birds to land on my mossy perch! not so hard to do! ha ha ha, this is a common specie at one of the lodges we visit in my workshops.

For this one I used

1D4
600f/4
f/6.3
ISO1000
SS 1/60, yes there was not much light that morning.
fill Flash in manual mode

Thanks for looking and commenting.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Stunning color and great perch and BG.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Amazing looking bird, nice perch, neat and clean BG & good comp. good sharp subject despite the slow SS. TFS Juan!

[Rachel Hollander]

Beautiful colors. Your perch and bg work well. You achieved good sharpness for such a slow ss.

TFS,
Rachel

[shane shacaluga]

Lovely image. feather detail is spot on but maybe the face is very slightly out of the focal plane or just a tad bright but does not quite have some of the finer details the wing feathers have

Perch and BG compliment the subject nicely

TFS

[Holger Leyrer]

Nice image. The colours and details in the plumage are great.
I like the pose and the wonderful perch.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi JC, love the colours on this parrot, good angled pose, and I do like the leafy perch.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Thanks to all for your comments!
Yes, a good sharpness technique is mandatory in the rain forest as we are always struggling with low light levels. In my workshops I can help you maximize your sharpness technique, not always a technique is good or bad for you, instead, one has to learn which is the best approach to achive maximun sharpness with the gear one have.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely image. feather detail is spot on but maybe the face is very slightly out of the focal plane or just a tad bright but does not quite have some of the finer details the wing feathers have

Perch and BG compliment the subject nicely

TFS

Shane.
I was checking the RAW file for this image and it appears sharp, especially in the eye and face but it is not visible in the jpg as this is a very small image. Thanks for commenting on my work! :)

[Peter Scholer]

Great results for low SS love the living perch and pleasing pose on such a beautiful Parrot.