So this is a snapshot I took this morning...for C&C please....

[IzzieK]

Isabel,

Beautifully captured... Wonderful focus on the birds head and eye, and beautiful colours. I like the wing flutter for the sense of motion. My hummingbirds have departed but in my limited experience it seems that because they stop to hover in flight using slower shutter speeds than for normal BIF seems to work. If it were my image I wouldn't crop so heavily, ie; only to eliminate the feeder. The greenery in the background is lovely.

Thank you for passing by this way, Christina. I do appreciate your comments and feedback. I had cropped heavily because of what I saw in other posts (not here, but internet wise...) how they isolate just the bird. I was enlarging some images here too to see how sharp they can do and why can't I do the same...I have seen some images here at CiC which has some quite remarkable sharpness without being too harsh (of course not birds...) and would like to emulate that...and I think Dave Humphries methodology on Unsharp Mask will help a tremendous lot. I have not tried it yet but I will today when I have time...

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Izzie, you're getting better with the hummers. I really like the shot, a very interesting position. Maybe a bit more wing captured but this appeals to me; a very ethereal image. One suggestion, tone down the hot spot RHS center.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Isabel , I like this one very much

[IzzieK]

Izzie, you're getting better with the hummers. I really like the shot, a very interesting position. Maybe a bit more wing captured but this appeals to me; a very ethereal image. One suggestion, tone down the hot spot RHS center.

I have a little crop version on the first page, Jack and in it I had toned down the bright spot. This last one, Grahame asked me for the original NEF file translated to 1500px on the longest side. Maybe today I will come up with something more than I bargain for as the hummers are getting used to me more and more as I changed/moved their feeder to a much better place...

Wing capture is really so impossible at the moment without going through so much expense of setting up and I do not have an enclosed deck at the moment...our structure was blown away by a fierce thunderstorm and we have yet to replace it. It takes strobes to catch some wings, Jack...

Thanks for passing by and giving me some feedback. I appreciate it very much.

[IzzieK]

Hi Isabel , I like this one very much

Thanks Binnur...I do appreciate your comments too...I am still in the experimenting and it seems that I am in the good graces of the hummers' mom and pop at the moment and they pose for me when I do not have my camera...I am teaching them to behave...