Violet-crowned Woodnymph feeding on ornamental banana plant (Multi flash set up)

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Hello every one!
One more hummer in flight image. For this one I used four fashes, a print as background and lured the bird with sugar water. In the real wold they do feed on this flowers.

Canon MK3+300f/4@f/11+ISO 200+SS1/125, PS, almost FF.

Comments and feedback most welcome.

[Randy Stout]

Juan:
I am not seeing an image with this post. Can you try and adding it again? If it doesn't work, just do a reply to your own post and add the photo there.

Cheers

Randy

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Thanks Randy, I must have done something wrong!

[laurie golden]

Juan,

You have lots of color on this little guy, very nice. I love the curl on the flower petal and the watchful eye the hummingbird is giving you. Very sharp and great composition.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Fantastic flash work and well done on setting this up so nicely. It a beautiful image well done Juan.

[Lorant Voros]

Pretty perfect in my opinion. Colors are beautiful and your flash tech is great. I would not have thought it was a painted BG, but I am not a multiflash setup expert. Nice work, Juan Carlos.

[Doug Brown]

Your BG looks good, and the bird has given you a nice pose that highlights its iridescence. I like the curled up flower petal. But there's not enough light on the bird's head IMO.

[Randy Stout]

Juan:

Very nice on many levels as mentioned. My first impression was that the face/head looks a bit too dark, before seeing Doug's comments. I suspect this fellow has a very dark head, but a little more light there would help I believe.

Cheers

Randy

[Peter Dexter]

Very clever set-up and the multiple flash stopped the action nicely. I wish his head was not in shadow. Beautiful colors!

[Dan Brown]

Very nice, Juan! I agree with the comments regarding the dark head. Maybe a little selective lightening will do the trick! I like the use of the adjustment brush in ACR for this type thing. You have to be carful with it, as you can cause a halo around the lightened area though.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Thanks every one for your kind comments, I guess you are right about the dark head, something to work on the next time. Thanks Dan for your suggestion regarding the adjustment brush!

[John Cooper]

Another superb hummer image from you Juan, can't fault - and the introduced BG looks very natural and works well for me.

[Satish Ranadive]

Juan:
Great set up.Very nice composition with beautiful colors. Love the feeding pose.
Agree with others regarding dark head.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the image design, pose, flower and BG. Dark head already mentioned. Beautiful image Juan!

[Melvin Grey]

All the helpful comments have been made. It is a nicely composed and captured image which clearly shows the contrasting iridescence of this species.

[Greg Basco]

Hola, Juan Carlos. A pretty nice attempt. The background looks good, and it's a nice comp and flower. The shadow cast by the flash hitting the flower from left on the bird's head is the big drawback as others have mentioned.

Cheers,
Greg