Slaty tailed Trogon

[Richard Unsworth]

:o

Canon 40d 100-400 @400 f5.6 1/160 manual ISO 400


Taken close to fumarolic vents in deep forest near Volcan Rincon in CR

The exterior light was very strong above the canopy.

These birds always look a little dull of course they are very beautiful

I have posted a question about the highlights in the BG elsewhere with no luck; I have a whole series of shots I'd like to recover.

Rich

[Doug Brown]

Fill flash would have helped here. Could you post a second version with the bird properly exposed?

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi Doug

+3

fill in flash - keeps ringing in my ears lol

thanks for reply - is there some way to sort or is it too far gone?

Rich

[Lance Peters]

Hi Richard - IMHO - you are not going to recover the highlights in the BG - The camera can only capture a certain dynamic range - unlike our eyes, ay most it's about 10 stops. So when the scene you are trying to capture falls outside this range you have two choices - expose for the subject and let the rest fall were it may or expose for the BG and let the subject fall were it may - obviously here you want to do the first.
As mentioned some fill flash would have helped - could have underexposed a little and used the fill flash to illuminate the bird.

Good looking bird - does look a little soft, some additional sharpening might help. As for the highlights in the BG- Aint much you are going to be able to do - IMHO!

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

Thanks once again Lance; I must get sorted with flash before I get back to that environment
Trogons are amazing birds, sometimes very hard to find. In this case it was with a female close to it's nest BUT the cover is so thick you cant reposition.
I'll keep posting shots as I have learned much this last week.

Rich

[Richard Unsworth]

Hi

I had a play with AHDR after Roger passed me a link
results are interesting aren't they

Rich