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Painted Honeyeater

Painted Honeyeater (Image ID 43118)
Photographed byGlenn Pure on Tue 13th Oct, 2020 and uploaded on Mon 26th Oct, 2020 .
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ID43118
CommentAn unusual visitor to the ACT - Con Boekel and I went out to find and photograph this bird on a bright, sunny day making the light harsh and difficult to manage. There were at least two, both probably males (black rather than brown heads) splitting there time feeding on the mistletoes in some large Eucalypts and chasing each other around at high speed.This bird had luckily dropped down into a low clump of mistletoe to feed as I stood not too far away.
EquipmentCanon 80D with EF 100-400mm Mark 2, handheld at 400mm
1/2500 sec, f6.3, ISO 800. Initially processed in Canon DPP 4 to crop, adjust exposure and lighting and perform noise reduction (at about 50% of default values). A 16 bit TIFF file was created from the RAW DPP image and finished in PSE (Adobe Photoshop Elements v9) where further noise reduction was applied to the main subject(s) using Neat Image plugin for PSE. Stronger noise reduction was applied to the remainder. Main subject selected and adjustments made to lighten shadows, darken highlights and increase midtone contrast as appropriate. Inverse of main subject selected and adjustments made as appropriate to contrast, highlights, shadows and saturation to make the bird stand out more effectively. Main subject sharpened after resizing for upload.
LocationCampbell Park reserve, Australian Capital Territory
Keywordsmale, adult
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