Anna's Hummingbird

[Aidan Briggs]

Spent a long time with this guy. The white background was due to the overcast skies that day. Not one of my sharpest images, but I still like it.

50D, 100-400 at 400
1/200, f/5.6, ISO 320
Flash

[Mike Milicia]

Great wing position and nice combination of sharpness and motion blur.
Nice job on the exposure as well.

In an ideal world, he would have been kind enough to perch further out on
the branch to avoid the tip crossing the left wing but I still like it, too.

[Aidan Briggs]

Thanks for the comment Mike. I dislike the perch crossing the wing just as much as you, but I never got a frame where he perched any higher up than this :(

[Art Kornienko]

I think you need a higher shutter speed for these guy, and I'm not sure if you cloned out the top of the branch but the tip to the branch looks a bit unnatural and there is something just to the left of the tip of the branch (shadown/clone object?).

[Aidan Briggs]

I think you need a higher shutter speed for these guy, and I'm not sure if you cloned out the top of the branch but the tip to the branch looks a bit unnatural and there is something just to the left of the tip of the branch (shadown/clone object?).

I did not alter the tip of the branch in this image. I didn't end up cloning anything out of this image, albeit I do agree that the tip of the perch does not look natural.

[Arthur Morris]

Hey Aidan, Love the fully iridescent gorget and the raised wings. Art beat me to the punch on the branch tip; glad to learn that it was not the result of poor Photoshop work. The head is sharp and I am fine with the blurred wings.

Did you add any light to the EXP?