ANNA'S

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Description

This is an anna’s hummingbird that’s been coming in to our Cleveland sage and I got this capture.

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It’s kinda busy but, to my eye, she stands out from the BG enough that I don’t feel the need to clone out a lot of it. What say you? Cropping?

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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/3200th, f 9.0, 720mm, ISO 7200, cropped to 4970 x 3580

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1/3200 did a good job of stopping the wings, Dave. She stands out pretty well, but those bright stems still pull my eye away from her quite a bit. Unfortunately, they would be a real pain to try to clone out without messing with the in-focus bloom and bird.

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Very nice pose and detail in the hummer and the blue flowers add a lot. To some extent the hummer seems a little lost in the frame. You might try using the remove tool in PS to eliminate the stems in the LLC.