Here's a frame from my just completed Costa Rica workshop that I co-lead with Greg Basco. The Resplendent Quetzal is one of the star attractions of any bird photography trip to Costa Rica, and we got a great look at a male and female. I find when photographing Quetzals that taking my camera off the tripod gives me the freedom to find shooting angles that people working from tripods are unable to get. That's how I managed to find a clean BG (which has had some clone work done in post to smooth things out).
Canon 1Dx, 600 mm + 1.4x, 1/125, f/5.6, ISO 3200, manual exposure, hand held
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