Passionate Green Hermit

[Bill Holsten]

Female Green Hermit visiting a Passion Flower. Photographed earlier this month at Bosque de Paz, Costa Rica on workshop conducted by Greg Basco and Doug Brown. Multiflash setup with sugar water injected in flower.

Processing challenge was toning down the hilites on large leaf, without making it look plastic.

1D Mark IV, 70-200mm f/2.8 at 95mm, 1/200", f16, ISO 320, Gtizo tripod

Critique and comments welcome!

[vishaljadhav]

Bill
i like the pose you have captured here, very unique and attractive , the red flower and green bird makes its **** interesting to the eye

[Jim Crosswell]

Beautiful image Bill! I like the flower, incoming pose and BG. This is my favourite hummingbird in CR. I tried a version with some off the bottom and left. Just an alternative to a great image.

[Greg Basco]

I remember this one, Bill. Sweet image!

Cheers,
Greg

[Doug Brown]

Hey Bill. Definitely one of my favorite images of yours from the trip! Great flower, cool pose, and the hummingbird is totally focused on the flower. Maybe a little less contrast.

[Dan Brown]

Great pose captured, Bill. Nice comp, bg and sharpness. The reds of the flower look blown here. Maybe this needs a closer look in the raw image.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Bill. Green hermits are certainly aerial acrobats and you captured a good action pose! I like Jim's tighter crop. Cool image!

[Frank Schauf]

Nice composition and excellent exposure control and sharpness.

[Marina Scarr]

What a great looking HB and the pose and set up is just perfect. I like the recrop. The work you did on the leaf looks pretty good.

[Bill Holsten]

Thanks to all of you who critiqued this post. I certainly agree that the tighter crop is a more effective image as the bird does not get lost.