Taken in Cloudcroft, NM. There were six or seven feeders hanging outside of a restaurant and a whole lot of hummingbirds buzzing around. It was very foggy that day and it was hard to catch one without any motion blur. "L'oiseau vert" is French for "the green bird." Spanish would seem to be more appropriate but I can't speak a word of it.
curves, hue/saturation (to bring out yellows in underbelly), brightness/contrast, USM, crop
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What a fabulous close-up of this hummingbird! Love how you can see all the wonderful details of it's plummage - and those shimmering greens are lovely to look upon. I know that it is difficult to capture these birds stationary but I am going to offer my suggestion anyhow. The stark white 'background' does nothing to complement this composition of the hummingbird. I do like that splash of red on the bird feeder for that adds a splash of color. The only thing that I can think of that you might have been able to do to eliminate the 'background' at the time of the shot is to have taken it at a slight angle (45 degrees to the subject) looking up such that the blue sky would then become the background. Then the blue sky would be a nicer complementary color to those wonderful greens pictured here....of course it would also depend on if there was a nice blue sky to be found on the day of this shot.
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