Portrait of a Cuban Tody

[Anthony Johnson]

This Cuban Tody was found during a recent birding trip/vacation in Cuba. My Guide, Carlos, was able to find a number of these beautiful little birds close to our resort.

Location: Holguin, Cuba
Date taken: 30 January 2015
Photo details:
ISO 3200
Shutter speed 1/800
F stop 8.0
Exposure bias 0

[Joe Subolefsky]

Beautiful bird. I would get rid of the center branch and do a little noise reduction on the BG if it was mine.

[Karl Egressy]

Very nice bird, well captured.

[arash_hazeghi]

it is a beautiful bird, I love the colors. The image quality isn't that great, bird is soft and the BG is quite noisy which could be fixed with better post processing

TFS

[Bill Dix]

Congrats on your first post. These beautiful Todys are tiny things, not easy to capture. You've managed to get a pretty clean view of him. I would second most of the commentary above: in particular the center branch is distracting and might be worth an attempt at removal; and the noise could be addressed in post. I don't know what you cropped out, but I'd be tempted to make him just a little smaller in the frame.

[Satish Ranadive]

Anthony,
You have got image of beautiful and colorful bird here. I have edited your image and recomposed it. Hope you won't mind.
I hope you could do it better way than me with your original RAW file. Hope you will like it. Seeing this cute bird for the first time. TFS.


Regards,
Satish.

[Anthony Johnson]

Gentlemen, thanks for all the comments. As this is my 1st post, I'm not sure how to reply, but taking your comments, I have re-worked the photo,. I must admit that post-processing is not my strong suit, so please excuse the errors. I have tried to remove the background noise and recomposed the frame, removing the offending twig.

As always C&C welcomed.
Tony

[Mervyn Marsh]

repost looks nice, wd great shot

[Peter Dexter]

I'm amazed you got as good an image as you did shooting at 3200 ISO. What camera and lens were used?

[Anthony Johnson]

Shot with Pentax K-3 with DA*300mm + 1.4 HD TC. At 69, this is the largest kit I can carry in the field!
Tony