In this particular case, I find the bokeh a little distracting, as this is Basic Editing and I cannot clone out a few imperfections. However, the shadow from the flowers framing the birds eye was just too cool not to enter. I'm sure there will be a number of comments about the branches in the upper left or lower right being distracting - but when you are shooting hummingbirds in the park, you can't always choreograph their movements. :-)
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Beautiful capture and background is nicely blurred though I think some of the intruding elements (top left and bottom right) do weaken the impact a touch. Without those I think the composition would be spot on, though even less detail in the backgrounf greens would work better for me.
I think the border is a little destracting to the piece, especially how the white of the flowers in the top right seem to bleed into the border sort of eliminating the clean line the border should have.
Great composition and awesome capture. I can't wait to see what settings you used to capture this image.
I don't think any camera could have caught the wings in focus if they tried!! ha - beautiful shot, I wonder what that silver thing is behind him - is it a power line or metal something? I might like better without that, but still LOVE this shot you got!
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