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Anna's Color
Greetings. I love the way the color of the hummingbird changes from movement with the light. Here I pulled the color with a cool white balance, Nikon's Vivid picture control, a Lab mode curve, and a RGB mode curve (for the bg blue), detailing, NR & sharpening.

Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
-Michael-
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Gorgeous colors. I really like how the background cradles the bird.............Great detail in the face and nice perch. Consider masking out some of the green tint in the birds tail, as it blends him into the background a bit, but maybe that was the effect you were after....I generally like a sharp beak, but the eye contact is just super. Really striking image.
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Michael, a beautiful base image and the colors are gorgeous. A sharper beak would be nice but the blues and greens are so beautiful in contrast with the magenta.
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I love the color and clarity of the feathers and the sharp eye. You did a good job with the contrasting colors.
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Michael, I really love the background colors and the flow. I do wish the bill were sharper. I do like the way you framed this and I might consider a small crop off the top - I think it will help the tail look cropped and not clipped by presenting a tighter comp.
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In spite of liking the eye's vertical location in your post, I agree with Denise's suggestion -- and reasoning -- about cropping from the top. I'd probably go a step further and crop some off the left, as well.
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Jay, Cheryl, Judy, Denise, Dennis,
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. This started out as an image that I really liked but to my eye was somewhat flawed... some dof issues and the clipped tail... some intervening leaves are also blurred over the tail. The color work (thanks to this week's theme) and your comments had me back to the drawing board for this image... put some effort into post processing the beak more in focus (maybe 20 layers - contrasting, a handful of topaz, sharpening here denoising there...), added the bottom from another shot, pulled the underside back toward brown and settled on this square crop to preserve bg elements.

Thanks for looking & your great comments.
Cheers,
-Michael-
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Very nice work, Michael. You made it even better.
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What first caught my eye were the colorful and detailed feathers. Wonderful! I would crop from the top and a bit from the left in either version, so the bird isn't smack dab in the middle. I admire anyone who can take a picture of a hummingbird!
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