Here is a male Scarlet and as you can see the reason they are named Scarlet is because of his bright red coloring.
I always struggle on post processing of the males to keep the reds as bright as they seem in the field with out blowing them and loosing detail here the reds are pushed right to the edge and are actually clipped when I converted the image to SRGB for the web.
The Scarlet Skimmer is an Old World species from Asia first found in the New World in Miami 1975 and now found only in South Florida, Cuba, And Hawaii in the New World.
40D, 500 f/4 +1.4 TC + 25MM Ext Tube, 1/920 at f/8, Manual, Evaluative Metered, Flash -1 2/3 with diffuser, Tripod, Slight Crop and cloned out a few specular highlights







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