African Bird Club

Red-billed Hornbill in late afternoon light - Adult

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Savute section, Chobe National Park

Country image taken

» Botswana

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 220mm handheld

Bird Species

»Tockus rufirostris - Southern Red-billed Hornbill

Bird Species (French)

»Calao d'Afrique du Sud

Bird Family

»Bucerotidae - Hornbills

Bird Group

»Bucerotiformes Hornbills, Hoopoes, Wood Hoopoes, Scimitarbills

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/1000 sec, f7.1 ISO 800. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.