Keel-billed Toucan

[Doug Brown]

Thought I'd get one more colorful bird into the March theme, this time a Keel-billed Toucan from my most recent Costa Rica workshop. In addition to the wonderful color in the bill, I like the flash of red in the rump.

Canon 5D4, Sigma 150-600 C @ 313mm, f/6.3, 1/400, ISO 1000, manual exposure, hand held

[stuart wanuck]

nailed it very nice

[Bill Dix]

What a great look at this iconic bird. Fabulous colors, great pose and perch, nice exposure on the blacks. Top of the bill, and parts of the neck, are a bit hot.

[Colin Driscoll]

Such comical looking birds, like evolution got a bit confused for this lot. Top presentation and I have to disagree with Bill about the hot areas as they look OK to me.

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

Lovely, with a well scaled and interesting perch, nice head angle, soft background.

The areas Bill mentioned do appear a bit on the bright side, but very very close. I have seen issues with this bird before, in exactly the same areas. The histogram looks good in Lightroom CC, but if I use the Mac digital color meter app, it does appear to be between 250-253 in some of those areas. I have not done a rigorous evaluation of the relative accuracy of these two measurements, so perhaps it is the test and not the bird!




Cheers

Randy

[Bill Dix]

ColorPic is showing me 253 - 255 along the top part of the yellow bill, and 255 in the yellow neck patch near the bottom. But there again, I don't know how accurate it is.

[Doug Brown]

The top of the bill is definitely a problem area on toucans, even under overcast skies.

[John Mack]

Great frame like the pose of the bird and that nice green background.

[Richard Flack]

Beautiful image Doug, love these birds and the perch and BG here are awesome!

[Isaac Grant]

Perch, pose and background are just great. Agree that maybe toning down those areas could improve an already excellent image.

[William Dickson]

Whats not to like. Lovely colours throughout the image. Bird, perch and BG all super.

Will

[Doug Brown]

Perch, pose and background are just great. Agree that maybe toning down those areas could improve an already excellent image.

They already are toned down.

[Doug Brown]

Here's an animated GIF showing what I did with the brights. Forgive the dithering- it's a GIF with only 256 colors.

[Doug Brown]

Appreciate the feedback!

[Glenn Conlan]

Great work Doug, very impressive