Allen's Hummingbird with pollen

[Phil Seu]

d300, 600vr plus 1.4, f/8.0, 1/320, iso500

[arash_hazeghi]

very beautiful pose and sharpness, perch is nice too.
red channel is blown and there is some noise/color blotches in the BG easy to fix.
TFS

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice sharpness on the hummer's gorget, and I love the pollen at the bill-tip...very cool! Good small perch. Reds are indeed clipped, but still look good to my eye though. A small reduction the red channel's saturation would work. The noisy/blotchy BG should be fixed - your favorite NR method should do the trick nicely. I wouldn't mind a tiny bit extra breathing room for the comp too.