Anna's hummingbird on a nice day.

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got a pretty good shot of this hummingbird. It was fairly close. Lighting on the Perch was tough and it was difficult to to make it blend in.

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anything that helps

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ISO 1250, 500 mm, F7 .1, 2000th, D500

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Beautiful job on the Anna’s, David. I see what you mean about the perch. Could you post a jpeg of it before you processed the perch-it might be instructive to see what you had to work with to see if someone can come up with a different approach. Either that , or if you have the RAW file available, you could post it in the Processing challenge.

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This looks excellent to me David. Nice job on the perch if it wasn’t cooperative. Clean overall image, great detail and color in the hummer.

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Dennis,

I don’t have a JPEG I can send you, but I will say that much of the perch was way too bright and shadow in the background. Lot of it was out of focus.
I did what I could with what was available…

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You caught a very nice pose with a bit of wind-ruffled feathers for interest. And very nice sharpness on the tiny feathers.

I often have perches that are too bright. I’ve found that Nik Viveza can mask them very nicely and let me darken the area, with a “no change” mask on the nearby BG to hold it where it was. But it looks like you also did other work on the BG – was it really that bad? Would a partial change have worked better overall?

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Outstanding detail, David. Nice, complementary background. Wouldn’t worry too much about the perch, the eye goes right to the bird.

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Thanks for looking again

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Wonderful catch, David. I like the head turn and excellent soft background. Terrific image.

There were several male Anna’s at the local wetlands over the spring and summer. I named them Andy 1, Andy 2, and Andy 3…can’t call the males Anna can you?

Great image.

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Hi David, what a striking hummer - well caught. The detail and color on the head is outstanding and holds my attention.