Juvenile Boat-billed Heron, Cuero y Salado WR, Honduras

One of the problems with Point and Shoot photography, or, for that matter, photography of any kind, in the tropics is the density of the foliage. It makes focus difficult and the low light levels push any camera to the limits of what can be done without flash. So this is not a great shot of a Boat-billed Heron…an immature bird we found deep in the mangroves overhanging the waters in Cuero y Salado Wildlife Refuge in Honduras…but it is pretty good considering that it was taken hand-held from a boat in such dim light. 🙂

Sony HX400V at 1200mm equivalent field of view. I had to dial the shutter speed all the way down to 1/160th to get a reasonable exposure of ISO 2500 at f6.3. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.