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    Female Anna's Hummingbird. Natural light with two reflectors - one photographic silver reflector placed below and a blown glass feeder just above the bird as she backs off from it, acting as a second reflector. Glass feeder cloned out. Used 1/640 sec shutter speed to get some wing blur. Background is a cedar hedge about 20 feet away. Some things I like and some things not so much. Comments appreciated.

    Canon 70D, EF 70-200mm f/4L USM lens, 1/640. F7.1. focal length 184 mm, ISO 800
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    Steve:

    Interesting lighting tech, with a bit different look than the regular flashed hummer. The color balance/temperature does look a bit too silvery for my taste.

    Mild amount of noise in the darks in bg.

    Might consider a bit more room on top, less to right

    Strong sense of motion from the blurred wings.

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    I like the pose and the really neat atmosphere created by the off-angle light and resulting rim-lighting on the subject. Dark BG adds to that effect. Said BG seems to suffer from some resizing posterization, and I see a bit of a halo around some parts of the HB.

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