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Lilac-breasted Roller
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Lilac-breasted Roller

To capture this shot, I positioned the car so that my client, sitting in the front passenger seat, had this subject against a perfectly clean background; I then hoped into the back seat and shot out that window. That slightly different shooting angle meant that I picked up specular highlights as the sky shone through the edge of the backing foliage. Fortunately, the highlight behind the bird's head is the faintest of the bunch, and I held onto the frame because it's different from what I already have of this species. I'm sure some will like the highlights while other will hate them. Tough to argue with the bird though!

Near Satara Rest Camp, Kruger National Park, South Africa, 11/2/22
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II + 1.4x III on EOS R5
1/800 at f/5.6, ISO 1600

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