I have posted before some shots of this guy, A Brazilian Tanager (Ramphocelus bresilius), my favorite bird.

I have had difficulties capturing this bird, because lack of lighting and the extreme fine detail in feathers. I tried with RAW in #1, but unfortunately I was unable to develop the RAW file in such a way to recover his colors. A pity, because I like that shot despite of the strong flash.

I got comments on my last posts of this fella about the bad flash light. Indeed it is hard to get detail with this guy in low light without too apparent flash. At least for me.

Anyway, these are my last shots. Please, tell me what you think about the light.


This is dad:


http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11748a.jpg
http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11761a.jpg
http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11767a.jpg
http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11768a.jpg
http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11845a.jpg
http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-PV-070908-P+T_11847a.jpg




And this is mom. Very strong flash in this, not a good pose and not an interesting bird, but I wanted to show you the contrast with her mate (developed from raw):

http://w3.impa.br/~luis/fotos/0709_passaros_pv/tie-sangue-femea-PV-070908-P+T_11760-rawa.jpg



Hope you liked these,
L.

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