What’s wrong with this picture?
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his is a resplendent quetzal I photographed in Costa Rica. It is too small in the frame to make a strong visual statement because it was just outside of telephoto range. What I really wanted, of course, was the image on the next page. To create this sharp, tightly framed photo, I significantly cropped the original. I used the Canon 1Dx Mark II for the shot because, at full frame, the files from this camera open in Photoshop as a 57 megabyte file. I cropped it down to 8 megs because I wanted to essentially fill the frame with the bird. The next step was to ‘res-up’ the image so it has many more pixels and, at the same time, appears tack sharp.
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