Tufted Coquette

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Just returned from an amazing and interesting trip to Trinidad and Tobago. This is one of the most unique hummingbirds we came across. The seemingly endless array of hummingbirds kept us looking in every direction as they flew to a large variety of flowering plants surrounding the main building of the nature center. C&C welcome.

D4S, Nikon 500mm + 1.4 TC, 1/800s, f6.3, ff, ISO 3200, Gitzo tripod, Wimberley Gimbal head.

Removed a distracting vine in Cs6.


Geoffrey

[annmpacheco]

lovely bird, however your image is quite noisy and the BG has many distracting lines and ?artifacts. some TLC will improve an already lovely bird!

[Randy Stout]

Geoffrey:

Spectacular bird that I haven't seen before. But, agree with Ann about the noise, most noticeable in the violet belly, and the somewhat visually busy lower bg which competes with our attention.

If the IQ will tolerate, I would crop tighter to eliminate some of the lower background issues.

Cheers

Randy

[arash_hazeghi]

it's a pretty bird with amazing colors but it's too noisy and soft unfortunately.

TFS

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Thanks Ann, Randy and Arash. I did have to open the the orig. a bit and agree there is far too much noise. Went back and applied more Nik Define 2 including removal of artifacts.



Geoffrey

[Ritesh Nangare]

Love the RP..... As every one says here the image and the bird is too good to have the noise making it hard ...

By the way i like and love image ....
TFS...

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Thanks Ritesh.



Geoffrey