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    Default Orange-chinned parakeet/periquito

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    I got this cute fella on a perch set-up in Costa Rica. You can just barely see the orange feathers under the beak that give the species its English name. In post-processing, I restored the detail in the beak, ceres, and feet; ran noise reduction; and cropped to about 80% of the original.


    5D mkIV, 500mm f/4 IS, 1.4x TC III, tripod mounted
    1/640 @ f/5.6, ISO 2000
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    Love the view of the back/wings and the perfect head turn. Nice complimentary BG and the catch light (looks like light through canopy). Wish for less OOF perch. TFS

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    This is really great, Jake! Pose and head angle are perfect. Love that we can see the namesake orange as well. Woulda been nice to have a bit more DOF, but you were up against it with both ISO and aperture. Such is always the case in the tropics.....

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    Love the pose and detail on the bird. A bit more DOF and not having the cut (could maybe clone that out) on the branch would help. Would love to do some bird photography in costa rica. TFS

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    HA and pose perfect. Did you hacksaw the perch in the center??? A small crop from the left to eliminate the bump on the top of the perch near the left frame-edge would improve it. To my eyes, the bird looks over-sharpened ...

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