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    In my (limited) experience, it seems the preferred perch for a rainbow bee-eater in this part of the world is a barbed-wire fence. Driving up a quiet gravel road behind Daintree after a morning storm, this bird went up into a tree. Moved the truck into a position with (I thought) a decent background, then shooting over though the passenger side window I got this before it flew away. Looking at Morcombe's, the pale blue feathers, the underdeveloped throught bands and lack of the long tail feather, this is a juvenile, so it clearly did not know the local perching rules. Should have been at least f7.1.
    800mm, 1/1600, f5.6, ISP1250.

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    A nice pose against a good simple background. The bird does seem a bit pale to me, but perhaps the juvies are colored that way.

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    Highlights needs to reduced. Bird and the branch shows colors washed out look...

    I might take second look at the post processing again.

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    Pale colours noted in your intro, so a nicely framed shot, good head angle on the bird. I might be tempted to clone out the dark patch in the BG just in from of the bird

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    Attractive bird, lower the exposure a tad and it would look very nice.
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    Nice bird here. Like the composition with plenty of room for the bird to look into.

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    I agree its a younger bird and I agree with Dan about the exposure .Its a nice frame of a lovely bird.

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    Thanks for the comments on this, I reduced the exposure 0.4, it is better.
    A note on the capture, it is optically limited as I was using a 2x, and in error it was wide open. It is a bit soft unless stopped down a little, but was setting up to hastily.

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