Volcano Hummingbird

[Richard Unsworth]

A Costa Rican endemic; this is a male

Savegre Lodge gardens

7D 100-44 Ev +.33 1/125 f 5.6 ISO 640

[dankearl]

The colors are really nice here, I think a bit more off the bottom would look nice.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

pretty bird would like a tighter crop as well all over

[Richard Stern]

Hi Richard,

I'm OK with the crop - I'm a bit biased towards looser crops anyway. But my eyes are immediately drawn to the oof purple flowers rather than the bird. I wonder if a bit of shadow/ highlight work on the bird might help.

Richard

[Daniel Cadieux]

Love the background here, and I like the head pointed upwards. I could see a truer vertical with some off the right (actually, I see a faint straight clone mark close to where I'd crop it). I feel some flash would have done wonders to the image. A bit of a hot spot on the chest is worth revisiting to see if some details are extractable in there. Overall an appealing image Richard.

[gail bisson]

Ditto what Daniel said!
Gail

[Matthew Studebaker]

Very nice. I love the background and how the colors of the flowers compliment the bird.

[Rachel Hollander]

I like the comp and the bg. Good suggestions by Daniel.

TFS,
Rachel

[J van Noordwyk]

A good image and lovely colours Ditto on the corp.
Johan

[Richard Unsworth]

Ok thanks all
recropped, tried to reduce hot spot on chest, difficult to mask out and reblend area like that
any tips? may be slightly different tones now then OP