This is a pano crop because it comes from one of those shots where the bird popped up out of nowhere and there wasn't time to arrange everything perfectly without sacrificing a chance at a head shot. I picked 16x9 to get rid of the empty space above the bird that resulted from his being rather low in frame (again, no time to set it up exactly as I wanted it) and to emphasize that long and colourful bill. I had the 1.4 converter on the lens at the time, and I can't really remember why - I might have switched from a songbird spot over to where the toucans liked to go - but that extra length more or less limited me to close-ups.
The editing, post DPP conversion, involved some bill clean-up, shadow/highlight adjustment, and a bit of added warmth to compensate for the fill flash.
Canon 5D mkIV, 500mm f/4 IS, 1.4x TC III on a tripod at a feeder setup.
1/2000 @ f/7.1, ISO 800
Fill flash, ETTL @ -2.
THEME: Keel-billed toucan, up close and personal
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