EOS-1D Mk IV, 500mm f/4, 1/200, f/4.5, ISO 800
Fill Flash at -3
About 70% of Full Frame
Photographed on a foggy morning last week at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge in Concord, MA.
RAW file was quite hazy. Tried to cut the haze using the Blacks slider in ACR, black point adjustment in Levels, and adding black to neutrals and blacks in Selective Color.
Aside from possibly a bit of motion blur to the lower mandible this is pretty much perfect: sweet high key, killer singing pose, EXP perfect with detail throughout the entire bird.
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