Black-Chinned Hummingbird Painting

[Gus Hallgren]

Hi Folks:

Caught this little Black-chinned at Madera Kubo B&B yesterday

Uncle Gus

All comments welcome.

Olympus E-520, Zuiko 70-300 @ 380mm

Aperture priority

F/5.6, 1/160s, 200 ISO, 0.00eV, Auto WB, Flash

Painting done using Corel Painter 4

[Stuart Laughton]

I love everything about this. The eye is terrific and the sphere under the bird "grounds" the bird image balances it nicely. Choosing background colours (note Cdn. spelling) must have been a challenge but I think you nailed it. Someday I hope to be able to do stuff like this. Stuart

[Gus Hallgren]

Thanks, Stuart, I too spell colour that way as I was born in Vancouver, 1924, though I have lived in Calif, Hawaii & Arizona for the last 49 years with all of my 50+ relatives still in Beautiful B.C. . . . eh!

Lots of Canucks in this forum, Jackie & Gail for 2 good photographers.

Best regards

Gus

[Harold Davis]

i really like the treatment here, UG!! i bet the printed notecard looks really nice!

[Alfred Forns]

Hope you are using this one on a card Gus !!! Really like it !!

[Gus Cobos]

Uncle Gus,
This is superb...I love it...this will make a fine card...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Love it Gus - no nits here - big congrats!!!

[denise ippolito]

Gus, I love the color tones and feel to this one. The angled brush strokes are a perfect touch!