Silver-beaked Tanager

Gallery: AvianPosted June 30, 2013109 views5 comments

Silver-beaked Tanager, Ramphocelus carbo.

I took few shots of this shy guy. I believe the image is not faithful to the beauty of this bird. Still, I hope it works for you guys.

f/6.3, 1/320, ISO 400, EV -1/3, @420mm.

Canon 7D, 300mm f/2.8 + TC 1.4x

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 30, 2013 at 6:40 PM

Gorgeous bird, Jefferson. The detail in the image looks good, but it looks like you were dealing with some extremely harsh light. the bright perch really distracts from the bird. The white on the beak also looks like it might be a bit too hot. Definitely a tough exposure.

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Comment posted by Randy Bacon on June 30, 2013 at 8:12 PM

Jefferson, looks like you have a gorgeous bird on a nice perch with a great BG, unfortunately, the light was not in your favor. I've had some luck with images like this by pulling back the highlights in camera raw - the most recent versions do a great job of recovering blown highlights. Anyway, this is a nice image, thanks for sharing.

Registered on November 24, 2008, 56 Posts, 492 Comments

Comment posted by Sharon Hallowell on June 30, 2013 at 10:16 PM

Gorgeous bird...tough exposure with that light. Sharon

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Comment posted by Claude Dagenais on July 1, 2013 at 7:11 AM

Beautiful bird Jefferson, light conditions were tough and this looks like a difficult bird to expose perfectly but you pulled off a very acceptable shot. Thanks for sharing this image.

Registered on April 10, 2013, 56 Posts, 571 Comments

Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on July 1, 2013 at 6:34 PM

Thanks for your comments!

Dennis, I've tried to work a little bit on the perch and the beak.
Not sure if it improved the image.

I would appreciate if you could comment the second version.

Thanks,
Jefferson

Registered on December 18, 2012, 162 Posts, 975 Comments