Hi, and I'm sorry for my lack of participation lately. I've just been really busy. I had a chance to go out the other day for some hummingbird photography and came home with one that I was really happy with. It's a juvenile male green-crowned brilliant visiting Bomarea epiphyte flowers.
Tech: Canon 5DII, Tokina 80-200 f2.8 lens, f11, 1/160, ISO 500, four Canon flashes (3 on bird, 1 on BG), full-frame no cropping, cloned out one catchlight in the eye
The image looks a bit washed out to me. In the repost, I pulled the shadows slider in to about 24, which to my eye gives the image a bit more snap without loosing shadow detail.
What I like - the composition (the flower line converging with the line of the very nicely captured hummer), the color, the wing position, the tail position, the feeding position of the head.
The image gives the impression of the strength and agility of a hummer.
Not really anything that I don't like about the photo.
Do notice a difference in the original and repost but can't say I favor one over the other.
Love the fanned tail and the head turn, it seems as the bird is very concerned about where he is going to feed. About contrast, I would stay with a version between yours and Randy's. I like the combination of the green BG and the red bomarea.
Green-crowned brilliant visiting Bomarea flower
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