This is a southern crested cara cara that I encountered in Patagonia. The original background was completely out of focus because I used a Canon 500mm f/4 telephoto with its inherent shallow depth of field. I'm working on a series of images that show 'impossible depth of field', and even though I left the foreground blurred, there is no way I could have photographed the distant background sharp like you see it here given my distance to the bird (about 70 feet) and the long lens I used. In Photoshop, I used the plug-in Topaz Remask 5 to select the bird and its fine feathers, and then I pasted into the background a landscape also from Patagonia. This is a unique look because we never expect to see complete focus when shooting with telephoto lenses where there is a foreground close to the camera. This is particularly true with bird photography which is almost always done with the longest telephoto we have.
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