This is not a cropped image. This yellow-billed hornbill was drawn to its reflection in the one-way glass of the blind from which I was shooting. In fact, it came right up to the glass and touched it, trying to make sense of its reflection. I had to wait until the bird backed up 2 or 3 feet in order to focus and to fill the frame with my 100-500mm Canon lens. In order to hold as much depth of field as possible, I had to wait until the hornbill turned its head so the long beak was parallel with the plane of the digital sensor in my camera. The settings were 1/500, f/6.3, and 6400 ISO. In post-processing, I used Topaz DeNoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI to eliminate the noise and to make the image as sharp as possible. The background is completely undefined, this being a function of the close proximity between the bird and the lens.
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