The Colors of the Rainbow

[Doug Brown]

While photographing hummingbirds recently, I caught this Broad-tailed Hummingbird in a pose that really shows off its incredible colors. I appreciated the light weight and close focus abilities of the new 600 during the shoot.

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Canon 5D Mark III, 600mm II, f/11, 1/125, ISO 200, manual exposure, multiple flashes (4), hand held

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful and colorful image. Sharp and well composed, Doug.

[Grace Scalzo]

Stunning photography and a great title.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Doug, I rate this as one of the top HB images posted on the site todate. Excellent inflight angle, and just love the varied multi coloured iridescence throughout the HB. Great BG too. Congrats on achieving this.

[gail bisson]

WOW!
Absolutely no suggestions to improve this.
I love the colors on the tail,
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent dynamic pose and nice flash work

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Excellent all round. I like the different pose and top view showing the beautiful colors. BKGD is also awesome.

[Andrew Merwin]

Well, this is a lovely image—very sharp BIF of a very fast flyer. Well captured.

[Richard Unsworth]

Killer for the reasons above and well it just is


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[Dumay de Boulle]

Amazing, love the BG and the flight angle and pose. Flash looks very subtle.... Well done!

[Markus Jais]

Stunning shot with great IQ, colors and flash work. Great BG ad excellent wing pose.

Markus

[Daniel Cadieux]

Not much critique to offer except for "WOW"! Amazing colours and subject isolation against that beauty of a BG.

[Sanjeevprakash]

Lovely Shot of Humming Bird,Doug. Tack sharp and very colorful.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great pose, colours, composition and IQ. Excellent image Doug!

[PhilCook]

hmmmmm...looking for something to nit pic about and have come up with zero...perfect !
A truly enviable shot, such a glorious looking bird too

[Carmelo Cannova]

Wow , this is just a super image. Beautiful colors captured and fine details.

Carmelo

[Nancy Bell]

This is a common bird for me and I have never seen those beautiful colors on his back! Spectacular image!

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

The flashes have really made the colors pop, very striking. Smooth BG, unusual pose for a hummer shot, well done.

What is the MFD of the new 600?

Cheers

Randy

[Giuseppe Varano]

I can't see the image .... this beauty is gone out the monitor

Impressive flight shot with gorgeous colors and details.

[Doug Brown]

Hey Randy. MFD is 4.5 meters.

[Greg Basco]

Doug, looks really cool for sure. As we've discussed a number of times, I like that you used f11. Not having that hyper depth of field to include the wing tips in this position makes it look more natural to me. I normally could go for more going on the BG but as shot with a 600 mm, it's quite true to the perspective/field of view so I think it works for this particular image.

Cheers,
Greg

[Karl Egressy]

Wow, such a cool shot, Doug. The new combo looks sharp in your hands.

[Doug Brown]

Thanks everyone for the feedback!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Absolutely stunning, Doug...a riot of colors. loved the psoe and the BG...perfect DOF IMO.