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Lalumière welcome and great photos - post more. How about a little more detail on the trip.:)

Jack
I have been to Costa Rica twice, in 2015 and 2016. We started our 2015 trip from Tortuguero where we spent three days. After that we rented an SUV for the rest of our trip. We went to the Sarapiqui River, then the Arenal region, Monteverde, San Luis, Tarcoles, Puntarena and Jaco and I forget some. We loved Costa Rica so much, that we returned the following year to visit the northwest of the country. Costa Rica is really fun!
 
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I am a newcomer to CanonRumors, and I would like to share with you some of the bird pictures I took in Central America. I took most pictures with Canon 7D and 7D Mk2 bodies. Canon 500mm f4, and 400mm f5.6 lenses. Sometime I use Canon EF 2X III and EF 1.4X II extenders. Most photos are taken hand held without tripod.
Barred antshrike

Collared Aracari

Crimson-backed tanager

Rufous-tailed hummingbird


Awesome! Beautiful pictures. Well done, Lalumière.


...And welcome to CR
 
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Some bird pictures from Costa Rica
Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing. I think that's a yellow crowned rather than a black crowned night heron if anybody is keeping score. The black crowned are black on top but I don't think they have the black chin strap.
 
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Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing. I think that's a yellow-crowned rather than a black crowned night-heron if anybody is keeping score. The black-crowned are black on top but I don't think they have the black chin strap.
Thank you for your comment. Sometime i become lost ! I'm going to make the change.
 
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ISv

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I was wondering about that..... around here, the Black Crowned night heron looks like this:
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.... or like this: first one is typical juvenile, second one is in transition to adult. Follow the link from Click to see how to separate both species when juveniles. I don't think you should pay attention to the red eyes, especially in the transition- it may come slowly... Oh, and the yellow and black bills - I don't know :(! Juveniles are more difficult to separate, at least for people who have never seen one of the species (like me :))!
You have nice shots anyway!

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Thanks for sharing, ISv.
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Jack, I'm almost 100% agree with your opinion. Instead of "Hard to beat good lighting..." I may write "Impossible to..." mostly because I'm not sure the fill flash will get you to the same results (well, at least I'm not very good in this, I always see some differences that I personally don't like).

On other hand there are situations when if you don't shoot you just go home with nothing! And I think there are some folks around who need to get that shot, no matter how fine it will look as a picture (by one or other reason). Alan is Alan and he loves to show what his equipment is able to do (and stretching the boundaries time to time...). Is that useful here in the forum? I think so (well, I'm sure so): despite the photos are hardly competing with photos taken in proper light, they are still photos taken home and for some purposes they are 100% good enough. All this is an info that may help the guys who are after the object at any price. I'm not sure Alan is doing this exactly by the same reasons :) but it works there well enough...
I'm not very sure if I succeed to express myself good enough (in English) and it's just my opinion. Could be interesting to see what others are thinking about that anyway?
You are pretty close to the truth.

CR is a site for gearheads who want to know what Canon is likely to be producing in the future, what you can do with Canon gear now, how the different bodies and lenses compare with each other and with other makes. It is not a specialist bird photography site that requires outstanding photos but it contains forums where the members exchange information about how their gear performs and what can be got out of it and share tips. For the reasons of information exchange, I always leave the EXIFs on my uploads and usually state the body, lens and focal length as well as other details. I am interested in what other bodies and lenses can do and generally download images from other posters to look at their techniques.

My own view is that members of CR who actively participate in forums should be allowed the self-indulgence of posting their images in the various image forums, some as a matter of pride, others for objects of discussion. It is a pity we are 100% enthusiastic about every bird image posted and constructive criticism is virtually non-existent as information exchange about composition and technique would be useful.
 
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