Rufous Hummingbird & RP

Gallery: AvianPosted March 27, 2014101 views9 comments

Another one from last Saturday's session with the Rufous Hummingbirds. I used the Shadows/Highlights tool to help bring out the shadowed areas a bit more on this one. The color balance is as shot.

7D, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu Gimbal on RRS legs, f5.6, 1/800, iso 640, Av mode with +2/3 stop compensation. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 8.7 MP of the original 18.

Your comments and criticisms are always appreciated.

Thanks for looking,

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 27, 2014 at 10:32 PM

Dennis, Love the Hummer. Can you pull back on the sky without having it posterize on you?

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 27, 2014 at 11:37 PM

I think I can, Rick. I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on March 27, 2014 at 11:50 PM

Colors in this are insane Dennis! Love it...especially pops with the HK BG.

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on March 28, 2014 at 8:00 AM

The colors in the bird are spectacular, with a fine glow. The clean background isolates the bird well, but I'm not sure about the brightness.

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Comment posted by Robert Bunch on March 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM

A very nice shot and the bird is sweet and the colors are great. I am not keen on the bright BG.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 28, 2014 at 12:38 PM

The colors are really nice. Looks like the light direction wasn't ideal, however, you made the most of it. Overall, a nice capture. Wish I had a hummingbird image this good in my portfolio.

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Comment posted by David Bogener on March 28, 2014 at 5:37 PM

Excellent image Dennis. I normally try to avoid high key backgrounds, but this works very well. Warm light and great detail. The angle of light helps bring out the subtle textures in the hummer. Well done. Dave

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 28, 2014 at 7:11 PM

There have been some differing opinions on the high key bg and the original post had the reds clipped in the white bib. I went back and reprocessed the image by creating a separate layer for the foreground and processing it differently than the bg. I also moved the color temperature down to -7 in LR5 to desaturate the reds. Here's the repost.

Thanks for all your comments.

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on March 29, 2014 at 6:52 AM

Hello Dennis,

Exciting little bird - and personally I prefer the high key BG ! Cheers, Hans

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