Lucky catch! Well, maybe not all that lucky - I was waiting for it, but lucky that it sat still enough for about 5 shots. Taken hand-held with SB-800 flash.
PS cropped, usm, curves.
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the details are great, it almost looks like you set this up ;) colors are beautiful and the reds and greens really fit together, the background bokeh is stunning!
I like the square crop because it keeps a tight focus on your main subject - the bird perched on the flower. The blurred background provides the perfect backdrop for the bird to visually pop off the page. Love the colors. I know the relative size of those flowers so this is a really small bird to be perched like that - because of that I can appreciate and get a sense of scale. My only critique is that I wish the composition had captured the bird head more in profile so that we can see his eye and beak more. Picky, picky, I know - that is sometimes very hard to accomplish but if one can get the shot it does improve the appeal of the composition.
You seem to have achieved great detail on the flowers, but the bird unfortunately looks a little fuzzy. Great colours and good depth of field. I'm guessing this was quite a difficult shot exposure-wise.
Good capture and stance here.
The background seems a bit high on the contrast side and would probably benefit from lightening & softening the background.
The subject stands out a little bit too much against the background for my tastes; almost as if it were cut and pasted on (obviously it wasn't, but that's what the appearance is of). I give it a 5, because it still is a good capture.
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