Golden-tailed Sapphire (Ecuador)

[Glenn Bartley]

I usually am much more partial to hummingbird images that also include a nice flower. But this species somehow seems beautiful enough to stand alone :)



Camera Model: Canon EOS 50D
Shutter speed: 1/250 sec
Aperture: 8
Flash: On
ISO: 200
Focal length: 500mm

[Clement Francis]

Man you are a master of using flash and photographing smalees, this is just insanely beautiful

[Harshad Barve]

Glen
This is super shot , lovely wing pose , killer BG and expo is spot on
TFS

[Ofer Levy]

Hi Glenn, great to see your awesome work again! Stunning shot indeed!! I feel it can be slightly improved with some tinny adjustments - happy to re-post it with your permission.

[subramanya_ck]

Awesome Image. I am in love with this picture. I am absoltely stunned to see this great exposure even with flash ON. Hats-off

[arash_hazeghi]

Nailed the details and colors here. Excellent, I am looking forward to doing some setup hummers soon :)

[Mital Patel]

perfect freeze..

[Lorant Voros]

Agree, Glenn, this is a beautiful little bird. Nice pose, colors, BG....to be honest I'd love to see it bigger. How many flashes did you use? Love your hummer images.

[Stu Bowie]

Amazingly sharp Glenn, and you have captured the colourful iridesence perfectly. Great flashwork, and well done.

[Kiran Poonacha]

I completely agree with you Glenn, great colours, lighting is perfectly done, super pose Big congrats..

[Glenn Bartley]

Hi Glenn, great to see your awesome work again! Stunning shot indeed!! I feel it can be slightly improved with some tinny adjustments - happy to re-post it with your permission.

By all means Ofer :)

[Ofer Levy]

Hi Glenn, it feels great to interact with photographers in your caliber like in the old days....:)

Here it is - just slight adjustments - levels, S/H, colour saturation, contrast and warming filter. I hope I didn't overdo it...:confused:

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Glen....you are right. No need of a flower here. Everything is perfect about this one. You even got the toungue out. Fabulous. A calendar shot for sure.

KD

[Tom Friedel]

Very nice. Was this shot with just one flash on the camera?

[Jim Crosswell]

This is a real beauty! I would also be interested in the flash details.

[Danny Laredo]

This is great Glenn. Fantastic flight pose and a great BG and colors. Ofer repost takes it to another level.

[Glenn Bartley]

This image was created using 5 flashes...

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Lovely bird and set up. I guess a version between both images would be fine.

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Great image! Like the posture, colours & BG. Exposure is spot-on.

[Billy Steenkamp]

Detail and colours are of a very high standard and the use of flash super..well done on a superb image.

[amir ben dov]

:-(
it is a most !!!!!!!! amazing photo
nothig but perfect

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

Absolutely the best Glenn.!