Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
I love catching the hummingbirds perched out in the desert. Was hiking in a local regional desert park and saw this one sitting still enough, for long enough to try to capture it in the window of blue sky above the approaching storm. I do wonder where these tiny birds find safe shelter when these desert thunderstorms role through.
Having a smaller telephoto allowed for the sense of scale in this bird against the world image. With a longer lens, I don’t if I would have taken this image, composed this way, but, instead would have tried to zoom in on the hummingbird. I didn’t know what I was going to do with this image, until this challenge came along, So, thank you for that!
Specific Feedback
A challenge for me, in processing, was doing some additional sharpening on just the branches and bird, used the sharpening mask and de-noise section in LRC, without worsening the fringe effect and increasing the noise.
I was going to crop down from the top, but given the nature of the challenge, I decided to leave in as much space as possible.
Technical Details
Small exposure, contrast, color, and WB corrections in LRC.