Dinner

[Ondrej Prosicky]

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Green Violet-ear, (Colibri thalassinus), Ondřej Prosický | NaturePhoto.cz, Canon EOS-1D Mark III, Canon EF 400mm f/5.6 L USM, f/7.1, @1/160 s, ISO: 800, 0 EV, Blesk: Yes (3x Canon 580 EX II), February 20, 2008 15:18:17, Savegre (Costa Rica)

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[Paul Pagano]

An enjoyable image to look upon. A nice bg and wonderful interaction between parent and children. Very well done, imo.

[Doug Brown]

Beautiful behavior shot! I was just working on a perched Green Violet-Ear this morning. Love everything about it with one exception. The OOF nest is a little too dominant in the frame. Here is a repost in which I cropped a portion of the nest, cloned out some of the brighter bits, and darkened the nest. What do you think, better or worse?

[Harold Davis]

better, i do like the repost a little better. the activity in the nest is enough to draw your eye away from the nest. great capture, ondrej!!

[Glenn Bartley]

Great behavioral image. I like the repost crop.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Great moment,nice work!!!

[Fabs Forns]

This is precious!!! How sweet and well done.
The OOF nest was a bit distracting, but I rather liked the space, maybe just burning would do the trick.

Congratulations on a fine image!

[Alfred Forns]

Fully agree with the re post It did take away from the main action !!!! I like how you got them in a good plane for optimum dof !!! Excellent image !!!

btw I've been looking at the image for a while and the transition from very sharp birds to oof nest is a bit overpowering?

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great behavior image, details and BG. Both crops work for me but I would remove one of the catchlights.

[Milo Burcham]

What a great image. The feeding behavior is great and color and sharpness of the birds is incredible. I could live witht he original image, but perhaps toning it down a little, to reduce the effect of the flash, would improve it.

[Dave Phillips]

a beautiful image

the nest appears artificially blurred or a lot of nr applied

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Awesome photo Ondrej, the poses are fabulous. I do agree with the idea behind the repost to take attention away from the slightly distracting nest, but find it looking unnatural. Maybe worth giving it a try yourself though.

[Ondrej Prosicky]

Hi Doug, this is image is better!

[Chris Dodds]

Re-post works for me. Very nice capture with great behavior.