This is the only time I've been able to capture two lilac-breasted rollers together in good light and with a clean background. I shot this in Kenya. These birds are tough to get close to, and that's why I used a Canon 500mm f/4 lens along with a 2x teleconverter, giving me 1000mm of focal length. I still had to crop the image a bit to make a tighter composition, and I also had to use Photoshop's sharpen filter (Filter > sharpen > unsharp mask) because the two birds are not exactly on the same plane. Since depth of field is shallow with such a long lens, I needed some help in showing both birds as sharp as possible. My settings were 1/800, f/14, and 400 ISO. I took this picture with the Canon 5D mark II in 2010 and noise was a bigger problem then then now. Had I taken this today, I would have used 1/1250, f/22, and 1600 ISO.
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