Another Scarlet Honeyeater shot from my visit to the Australian National Botanic Gardens at the weekend. The bird spent a few minutes on this branch preening (hence fluffed-up appearance), allowing some chance to photograph it while it wasn't flitting around madly. There were at least 2 males and this may not be the same bird as my first post. Crop retains just under a third of the frame area.
Thank you for taking a look and for any comments you may have.
Capture details: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/400 sec, f7.1, ISO 1600. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, default NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Very light NR applied to bird and stronger NR to background. Main subjects only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian blur) after final size reduction.
Scarlet Honeyeater #2
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