Adrian Binney, PPSA, LRPS
About the Image(s)
Taken this February when at Sevegre lodge, Costa Rica and so lucky to have a clear siting of the male preparing the pair’s nest in a dead tree, utilising a hole originally made by a woodpecker.
The lighting contrast was significant and the tree was in a deep valley, so far from a clean background. I had to significantly under-expose to have any chance at the PP stage.
Settings - using my Olympus gear and 300 prime with a 1.4 converter (so FF 840): ISO 3200 1/800 f6.3 handheld.
A lot of Lightroom work on sorting out the lighting and contrast issues - plus Topaz DeNoise and A1 Sharpening
I’ve added a second view for interest.
I’m sure all here will know much about these amazing rarely sighted birds, but we were treated to the male entering the hollow tree, loosing sight of the whole body, just being left with the approx 3ft tail feathers flapping about as he worked in the hole, every now and again being wood clippings exploding out. A further image shows this
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To add to the story, here is the female (taken at the same session and in v poor light, so 6,400 ISO and I cropped this heavily) - but nevertheless it shows as a record shot the relative size.   Posted: 06/07/2022 05:11:03