Male Anna's Hummingbird

[Dan Brown]

Shot this guy today while he was trying to stay out of the wind. I wish (really hard!) that the tail and forehead were sharp.
PP with typical CS3 workflow, cropped about 60%, sharpened with Nik Sharpener Pro, Inkjet.

Nikon D200
80-400mm VR at 400mm
f11
1/250sec
ISO 100
exp comp - +/67
SB800 TTL fill flash -1stop
Better Beamer
Shoulder stock

Dan Brown,
Sacramento

[Jim Poor]

Nice bird, good pose. A bit over-flashed, and you have some banding going on at the top of the frame.

[Dan Brown]

Thanks Jim. What can I do about the banding. I didn't see it. It is present in the PP unresized file also but not on the Raw file. Dan Brown

[Jim Poor]

Dan, I'm not sure as to the cause of the banding in this case, but you could check some of the ideas in this thread:

http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...ad.php?t=11776

As for how to deal with it in this image, I would probably just blur the BG.

[Lana Hays]

Dan
He's a beautiful hummer. Perhaps a tad over flashed but I think that you could tone him down some. I don't see banding at the top....but I'm on a small laptop at school. However, the top looks a bit "splotchy". I would just use some blur on the BG and it should be fine. Well done.

[James Salywoda]

A beautiful Humminbird with a nice pose and comp. I love the colors captured but I agree it is alittle overflashed but you can
tone it down in your workflow.

[Dan Brown]

Thanks for all of the comments. I PP'ed this image on my laptop, and I think that the angle of the screen affected my decisions as to the over flashed issue. If I tip the screen toward myself, the bird looks hot. I will have to revisit this image on my desktop computer. Dan Brown