On the hike yesterday, I spotted a male and female Magellanic woodpecker busy at work on a tree trunk. I concentrated on the male because of its beautiful head. Every few moments, the morning sun caught those red feathers, and that's what I wanted to capture. In order for the image to work, of course, the woodpecker's head had to be turned to the side. I shot this with a 100-400mm Canon lens along with a 1.4x teleconverter, giving me 640mm of focal length. My settings were 1/400, f/10 (this is enough depth of field so the bird and the surrounding bark were sharp), and I used 1250 ISO. The original background behind the tree was a busy mess of tangled out of focus branches plus an overexposed sky, so I had to replace it with blurred foliage.
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