Amethyst Woodstar

[George Scott]

On a recent trip to the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil - this tiny hummer appeared for less than 30 seconds before being chased away by the local bullies. We heard her distinct "wingwhir" before we saw her, and I was lucky enough to get 2 or 3 decent images before she disappeared. Taken in natural light,

EOS-7D
400mm
1/1000s @ f/11
ISO 640

All C&C welcome
Thanks

[Kim Rollins]

Decent you say?
Exquisite I say! I am liking everything about this one. Wow very nice!

[Glenda Simmons]

Excellant! Nice background. Sharp where you need it, without overdoing.

[Bill Dix]

Beautiful bird; beautiful shot. Nicely sharp with lovely background. Well done for naturally lit hummer. At bit tight in the frame for my taste.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Real nice. Excellent combo of sharp and blur. A little more room in front of the bird will definitely make it better. Pity that the head is turned slightly away. One round of noise reduction on BG will also help.

[Arthur Morris]

Hi George, Nice bird, I am fine with the wing blur. The whites on the neck look very bright; how do they look on your optimized file? Yes to too tight, and a big yes to a poor head angle. Please see the various threads in the ER. The head and body are sharp with good detail.

[Stephen Stephen]

Very nice details here George adn I like the wing blurr too. You didn't indicate whether or not this was posted at full frame. If not I would try to re-compose it to give the bird more space to "fly" into.

You did well to capture this in only a 30 second period of time.

[Troy Lim]

Nice shot, would like to see a bit more room on the left.

[Chris Labuschagne]

Nice shot, would like to see a bit more room on the left.

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