This is the male of the species. I posted an image of the female a couple of weeks ago.
I hope this thread will start a discussion on taming reds and best practices for shooting birds with black and red.The reds IRL are extremely brilliant and I feel they are accurately represented here although I did desaturate them slightly in PP.
Bird was in shade.
I cloned in some uneven areas in the BG.
Canon 1DX
600mm 1.4 x SS 1/125 f 5.6 ISO 1000
cropped from horizontal
Comments and critiques always appreciated and learned from with thanks,
Gail