I saw a humming bird for the first time a couple days before I took this picture. I got some good shots the first day, but I was not happy with them. My wife thought I was crazy. I was in the heat for about 2 hours trying to get a good shot and I thought the day was a waste until I looked at the pictures at work the following day.
Contrast in photoshop, selective colors on greens, reds and blacks, dodge the feathers on it's back for more detail. Good luck to me... I had a hard time picking my picture, I have a few more fanalists in my profile.
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It's great to catch them at a natural food source. My hummingbird feeder looks so nasty in the hummer shots I've gotten. Bird and plant look pretty smooth, but your lovely muted background is a little on the grainy side. Not bad in and of itself, but with the bird being green too, might want the background as undemanding/undistracting as possible. Anyway, dpc loves hummers, you should do ok with this ;-)
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