Male Rufous Hummingbird

[Wally Nussbaumer]

Taken in May 2009, Canon 1D MK III, Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L , f/16 at 1/200 sec multi flash

[Randy Stout]

Lovely soft colors. Tail spread nice, good HA. To my eye, the tail and rear wing are sharper than the eye/head.

Wish the gorget was just a bit better illuminated, as it looks like a beautiful one. Would also be nice to see a bit more of the near wing.

I am curious how many flashes were used and how they were placed.

Thanks for sharing this beauty.

Randy

[Wally Nussbaumer]

four flashes, one front center..low, one higher left and right one on the background. Sharpness seems even on full sized RAW image, but I am having problems reducing the image size for post. Sometimes it works OK for me on one image and the next done the same way just doesn't seem to work.

[Keith Bauer]

I like the look of this very much. The birds body is great. Wish for a bit more visibility on the wings. Gotta love those feet!!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool little guy, I like the eye contact, complementing BG and dangling feet. I only wish we could see a bit more of the near wing.

[Gal Shon]

Colors, BG, sharpness and pose are superb.
Would open the frame a bit (top and right) and / to move him from the center
I love to see a slightly bigger image.

[Peter Wallack]

Fine Work.

I have this species in my backyard from the second week of July through about mid august. They really are bullies. They bully the Broad-tails and Black-chins so much that the Broad-tails start to bully each other. As soon as the Rufous left, the Broad-tails reverted to their usual good manners.

[Aidan Briggs]

Good comments from above. I agree that the tail seems sharpest, and though it is hard to tell at this size, another round of USM on the head might be in order. I like the pose, BG, and exposure. I wish we had male rufous around here more.

[Stu Bowie]

Super hovering pose, sharp, and pops so well from the BG. Another vote for seeing this larger.

[Peter Hawrylyshyn]

Wally -
very nicely done
particularly like the BG you chose/used to compliment the HB's colors
agree that better wing positions would have put this over the top (but beyond your control)
thanks for sharing

[Harshad Barve]

Fantastic pose , legs , BG ,and sharpness, another vote for biggre picture size
TFS

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great stuff, loved the pose and details, greats colors and BG too.. congrats...