Inquisitive hummingbird

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• falke (1863)
• [2007-02-09 10:17]

This is a very beautiful photo of a Hummingbird. New leaves often have a sweet sticky fluid on them, perhaps this bird was a attracted by this.

I like the composition/crop very much and I think that the solid background enhance the fantastic colours even further.

Thanks for sharing!

Regards from a cold and snowy Sweden/Bengt

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• clnaef (6814)
• [2007-02-09 10:22]

Bonjour,
Presqu'en 3D, ce charmant volatile. Bravo.
Bonne journée.
clnaef

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• shal (2140)
• [2007-02-09 10:32]

Hi Tom,
this is a lovely shot of this beautiful little guy,
excellent details and composition,
Cheers :D

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• AdrianW (710)
• [2007-02-09 10:48]
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Great shot Tom! I love the amount of plumage detail you've captured here, it's amazing - and you rarely see that much on the common birds posted here, so to see it on something as small and quick as a hummer is incredible!

Composition is good too, although I think I'd be tempted to crop a few pixels off the top and left perhaps. I also wonder whether a fraction more DOF wouldn't go amiss, as the tail feathers are starting to lose sharpness - that said there's still plenty of detail there. Noise is very well controlled, particularly for ISO400.

An excellent capture - and this is my favourite of the three I think, as the eye is clearly in focus and the sharpness is excellent - plus it's an unusual pose :D

FYI: 1280x1024, LCD. Sharpness looks good here. That said sharpness is more dependent on the technology of the monitor and the person looking at it. CRT's tend to be soft, whilst flat panels display every pixel. So something sharpened nicely on a CRT may look unpleasantly oversharp on an LCD. Some people also prefer more sharpness than others. I tend to like a fairly high level, some don't. Best suggestion? Zoom in to 400% at look for haloes along sharp edges - if they're there, it's oversharpened, if not, it probably isn't.

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• claudine (0)
• [2007-02-09 11:34]

Hello Tom,
What a beautiful capture of this little one. Details and sharpness look perfect to me. No trace of noise at all. I like the texture of its feathers; I feel I can almost touch it. I like this composition and exposure too. This is a great shot! Thanks,
Claudine

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• Necipp (100)
• [2007-02-09 11:50]

Nice shot excellent feather detail great catchlights and sharpness interesting shot with a clean background well caught in natural light perfect DOF rgds Necip

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• oki (587)
• [2007-02-09 12:18]

Hi Tom,

awesome photo. The colors are brilliant and the way you got the humming bird is great.

TFS OKi

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• BillyGoat (4827)
• [2007-02-09 12:31]

Wonderful plummage! My monitor is set at 1152x864 and it looks great to me.

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• fiyo (15161)
• [2007-02-09 18:09]

Hello Tom,
Great shot, very good POV and pose. Very well done .TFS..

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• fartash (5161)
• [2007-02-10 3:51]

Hello Tom
Very nice shot of hummingbird,
In intersting position,
Perfect composition,Welldone.
I'll be back :-)
Regards
Fartash

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• scottevers7 (12309)
• [2007-02-10 5:23]

Hi Tom,
A very nice shot on this Hummingbird. Very nice colors and sharp detail. The isolation and seperation from the OOF backround looks excellent. Currenty on the road working off my laptop at 1024X760 and it look good.
Scott

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• JORAPAVI (4643)
• [2007-02-10 17:50]

Hola Tom,
Una toma muy buena de bella composición, con una nitidez, color y fondo excelentes. Saludos