Green-crowned Brilliant - coming in for a landing!

[Glenn Bartley]

Here's one from the beautiful Milpe reserve in NW Ecuador...

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/1727/greencrownedbrilliant24.jpg

Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 7.1
ISO: 100
Focal length: 300mm

[Randy Stout]

Glenn:

Very nice pose, coming at us and good timing on landing. Sharp, with nice background.

If it were mine, I might desat the red channel just a few points so that the plant isn't quite so overpowering.

I can see the image without the lower leaf as well. Might be interesting to try a version without, and see what you think about the balance.

A beauty for sure.

Randy

[Wally Nussbaumer]

Very nice Glen. Good landing capture. I might clone out the bottom red leaf as well. Good flash lighting on the body, but I find on the head a bit too much. Hard to cope with the iridescent feathers I know. Ecuador for hummingbirds is next on my list of workshops to do.

[Harshad Barve]

nice landing pose , great details and sharpness, If mine I may tone down red leaf and clone out bottom one
killer BG
TFS

[arash_hazeghi]

Nice details and wing position, exposure is very good IMO. Agree with toning down the reds and perhaps removing the lower leaf.

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

With work this good, I'd like to see a larger version. Good clean bg and colors.

[Dave Barnes]

I like the detail, colour and pose of the bird.
I agree with Randy on the persh being overpowing and think his suggestion will improve the image.
Have you considered a vertical comp?

[Nagesh Mula]

Hi Glenn, its a fantastic pose and very sharp capture. I agree with Randy on desaturating the red channel little bit. Also, I can see the whites on the plants (I guess its due to multiple flashes) which seems to make it a studio photograph in my opinion. If it were mine I would clone them out.
Congrats!! on a great shot though.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Agree on removing the lower leaf. I like the perch as is, I feel the contrasting (dominant) green on the bird and red colors of the perch work perfectly in this instance. What a great pose too! :)

[Ramon M. Casares]

Love it! Just love it. Great pose, comp, BG, light, species, detail and DOF.
Congratulaitons!

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

Very good Glenn. Iwould clone out the bottom red leaf.