Anna's Hummingbird 2

[Aidan Briggs]

Same flowers, different bird.

I know the dark patches in the BKGD will bother some poeple but I don't mind them much.

400D, 100-400 IS at 250mm
1/800, f/5, ISO 200
About 80% of full frame

[James Salywoda]

Beautiful shot Aiden nice feeding pose pretty bg really compliments the hummer I think you probably could sharpen the bird a touch more..........

[Juan Aragonés]

HI Aidan, I would go for a tigher crop and would keep out part of the flower branch that it is in not perfect condition and do not made justice to the image. I suggest the attached cropping and some cloning job to delete part of the flowers. I also added some saturation, noise reduction only to the BG and levels adjustment. The action is very good and you have a great eye catch. Terrific BG and I like a lot the complimenting between the green and red. Very well done

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Very nice work on the repost Juan. Lovely image with a beautiful flight pose and excellent detail and composition as well as a very pleasing BG. Many thanks for sharing.

[Linda Robbins]

Nice feeding pose and excellent head angle. Sharp where it needs to be. Juan's repost improved this already nice image. Well done!

[Joanna Trescott]

Juan's repost really pops. Great capture.

[Lance Peters]

Likewise Juans repost puts it over the top - nice one :)

[Norm Dulak]

I like this image, although it could have been sharpened a bit more. I find the natural background and some blurring of the wings to be most appealing, because these birds are constantly in motion. Completely freezing this motion is unnatural. It is also desirable that multiple flash photography was not used, because I think that nature should be captured photographically with as little intrusion and impact upon the subject as possible. Good work!