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    Default Magenta-throated Woodstar

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    This hummer was photographed in Costa Rica; multiflash setup via Doug Brown and Greg Basco. Cropped to remove feeder, two catchlights removed and usual pp. C&C encouraged and greatly appreciated!

    1dm3; f16, 1/200; 70-200f4 +1.4x...multi-flash

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    Extremely beautiful capture.Marvelous image and color scheme .Nice BG.

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    Katie, excellent crop and bird angle and relative size of subject in the frame...Flash work is excellent...so are the colors, sharpness, exp. and wing position. I like that there is some tonal variation in the BG.

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    This is beautiful ,Katie.Sharpness ,HA,posture and complementary bg superb.

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    Pretty nice work. Amazing detail and sweet BG.

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    Excellent flight posture Katie, which in turn shows the coloured iridescence nicely. Overall nice and sharp, and against a killer BG. No doubt you were in good hands with Doug and Greg.

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    Thank you all for your kind comments; yes indeed, Doug and Greg are great mentors!

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    A beautiful image! Great flash work, details, pose and bg.

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    excellent details and sharpness.
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    Well thought out set up. Beautiful subject and a very complimentery BG. Detail ain't bad either.

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    Holy moly:eek: Fantastic. I do like the tonal variation in the BG but wish it wasn't in front of the bird perhaps.

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    Great flight angle and like the BG and pose. Nice flash-work...Small hal around the beak, small nit though. Very nice Katie

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    What a little jewel Perfectly executed

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    Very nice, colors and sharpness..love it

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    Hi, Katie. Just happened to be around here and saw this shot. I'm so glad you got one of this species, which, as you remember, was not a common visitor to the setups. I echo the others in saying that everything looks great here. Great choice of which catchlight to leave; you'll remember that having a good high catchlight is the idea behind this lighting scheme.

    I thought this was a female coming around, but now that I see your picture, I think it might be a juvenile male as it looks like you can see the start of the magenta throat feathers coming in. If I remember correctly, the female doesn't have any coloration there.

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    :eek: Awesome !!! Great sharp detail and IQ. Like the in flight pose and comp. Subject is well exposed with good natural colours against a killer bg. Well done !

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