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Emerald toucanets

Oct 9 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

These are southern emerald toucanets I photographed in Brazil. So often, birds are perched or flying very close to background foliage, and the greenery becomes distracting because it's too defined and too busy. That was the case here. So, I selected the birds with Select > subject, and then I used Select > inverse. This selected the background. I then used Filter > blur gallery > field blur to make the tree behind the birds out of focus. That made all the difference. The camera settings were 1/600, f/7.1, and 8000 ISO. I then applied Topaz DeNoise to mitigate the unwanted noice. I took this shot with a 400mm focal length on a 100-500mm telephoto.

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