Peruvian Thick knee

Gallery: AvianPosted January 9, 201292 views3 comments

Sorry about the previous mix up. This is the correct photo taken with live view hand held at a low angle. I found AF was not doing the job using live view, so resorted to manual focusing. Corrected for red-eye. Taken at the Miller Park Zoo rainforest exhibit.

Canon T3i
1/200 @ F-4.5 ISO 400
Canon EF70-300 @ 105mm
Live view, HH IS on
Flash -.3 as fill

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on January 9, 2012 at 3:57 PM

Well done John using a diff. technique to get a shot. A very interesting looking bird and I like the habitat.

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on January 9, 2012 at 8:16 PM

Exposure looks good and the interesting subject stands out well with the darker background. A bit tight top and bottom for my tastes.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on January 11, 2012 at 1:09 AM

Very nice, John. I agree with Richard it's a bit cramped at the top and tail. I might clone out the blue-green thingy in the lower left, too.

In my experience, these birds are extremely hard to photograph in the wild...

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