This is a Lilac-breasted Roller. Not only are they stunners to look at, they are quite common and cooperative as photographic subjects - hence the title of this post. I never got sick of photographing them. This one taken in South Africa (Timbavati Private Reserve) late in the day. The bird was perched low in a bush right next to the track and didn't fly when we stopped for a photo or 10. Crop is about a third of the frame area.
Thank you for looking and for any comments you are kind enough to share.
Technical: Canon 80D with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM at 400mm handheld. Manual exposure 1/1250 sec, f8, ISO 800. Processed in Canon DPP 4 (digital lens optimiser @ 50, sharpness = 3, crop, lighting adjustments, NR) then exported 16 bit TIFF to Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin. Modest NR applied to bird and stronger to background. Bird only sharpened in PSE (Sharpness tool, remove Gaussian Blur: 0.4 pixels at 50%) after final size reduction.
Last edited by Glenn Pure; 12-28-2017 at 10:41 PM.
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