Tufted Grebe

Gallery: AvianPosted October 6, 20161,933 views4 comments

Canon 1D-X, 500mm f4, handheld
f11, 1/800, ISO8000

Photographed at Ardanilia Wetland, near the coast south of Lima. Fairly common in Peru, Chile and Bolivia. Coastal Peru is a desert, ad this time of the year there is very heavy fog, the only source of moisture. Hence, the high ISO and the noise.

75% of full frame. Selective sharpening and slight brightening of the bird; noise reduction to background.

C & C, please. Thanks for looking.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on October 6, 2016 at 6:57 PM

Beautiful bird - great colours on the head and the red eye is always pretty with the grebes.
Kinda messy BG but you had no control over that!
Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on October 6, 2016 at 7:05 PM

Noise is starting to show in the larger version, Jim, but not badly for that outrageous iso. Nice pose and the water drops on the back are a bonus.

devil

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Barbara Graham on October 6, 2016 at 11:18 PM

I love Grebes, I love how they look. You have great detail on this one.

Registered on July 27, 2010, 1310 Posts, 5035 Comments

Comment posted by Nate Chappell on October 7, 2016 at 6:28 PM

Nice pose here Jim, if you had shot this at F5.6 which probably would have been sufficient depth of field, you could have taken this at a reasonable iso - 2000 - with the same shutter speed and had a much higher quality image with out so much noise. devil

Registered on February 1, 2006, 1158 Posts, 19528 Comments