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    Default Blue-faced Honeyeater

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    Angled light showing the texture of that wonderful blue patch.
    Edit FYI Bird is about 25cm long
    1DX II 400 f4 III 1.4xIII 840mm HH
    Manual exp
    1/2000 f5.6 iso800
    Cropped, S&H, Levels, NR to BG, Light sharpen to bird PS2019
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    Menacing is my first thought Colin. Well done looks great. I do agree wonderful detail on the blue patch.If anything maybe under the bill would clone to soften the edge of flower or weed and the few diagonal lines. TFS

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    Cool closeup Colin. Great details.

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    High impact image, tropical feel, like it.

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    This is very clever Colin.The variation in the blue caused by where the sun is makes it fascinating . I see these birds often and there's probably another shot with the light right behind you still to come ,and at the right time of day at about iso 640 0r even less. With that beautiful background as well.

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    The facial skin and BG are perfect together! I suspect this is a fairly heavy crop, but the detail held up really well! Super intense feel to this frame.

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    Thanks for commenting. I forgot to note that the reason the blue patch is so wrinkled is because it can be inflated in great excitement/alarm so the face is almost entirely psychedelic blues. Dorian, not so much of a crop maybe 30%.

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    If this i a very large crop, the detail held up very well. Pretty unique eye and also like that blue.

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