Anna's Hummingbird
Hi Folks: Don't know what happened with my Rufous & Costa's Hummingbirds, but this Anna's (Male) paid me a visit this morning. C& C's always welcome . . . Uncle Gus :D
Olympus E-520, Zuiko 70-300mm ED
AP: F/6.3, 1/1600s
400 ISO
-0.30ev
340mm focal length
Auto WB
Great capture, love the background and details.
regards,
Agree with Oscar on all points. Very nice.
Hi Uncle Gus.
I like your capture, nice soft green background, good color rendition and sharp details. I would have liked to have seen a better capture angle on your bird. It looks like he is flying away from you looking at perhaps a feeder. Maybe if you would have moved to the right it would of presented better. The image looks a little flat to me. I did a few adjustments see if you like...I kicked up the contrast and saturation slightly and sprinkled selective sharpening on the little guy. I did not do noise reduction. since its borderline; I'll leave that up to you. Anyway I do like the capture...congrats...:cool:
Agree with Gus. On my monitor it looks a bit soft. Not sure if it has to do with focusing because even with Gus's tweaking, t the bird still looks kind of soft on my monitor.Originally Posted by Gus Cobos
Hi Folks:
Thanks for looking at my Hummingbird with comments. Here's my tweaking of original posted.
First I opened curves, clicked shadow eye dropper & picked black in eye, then I clicked highlight eye dropper & picked whitest spot, then clicked OK. Flattened image, then Filter>Sharpen>UInsharp mask, Used Amount 127, radius 0.2 pixels, Threshold 0 . . . ran it 2 x Then saved for Web & devices under 200KB . . . What do you think? Uncle Gus :D
Much better, Uncle Gus, in terms of sharpness. More details are showing.
I like the last Post Uncle Gus, more detail and punch. You are doing a great job with this hummers
Last post is right on the money !!!! .... nobody minds the head angle? If there was a flower he was moving to would be fine but hovering with empty space is not !! Very nice image Gus !!!
Repost looks great.
Hi Folks:
Thanks for all your feedback. After reading Al's good suggestion about having a flower in the photo, I went out to our garden and took a photo of a Mexican Yellow Trumpet, and added it as a composite to the original. Hope you approve . . . Uncle Gus :D
Now this takes care of the head angle that I mentioned in the original post. Now Mr. Bird has the flower that he was looking at...this is a "10" Uncle Gus...good show...:D:cool:
you nailed the last one!!! great job uncle gus! tons of detail on a beautiful bird!
Super shot, Gus. Being me I quite liked the first one.
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