Humming birds @ Costa Rica - Need C&C

LuigiVN · May 16, 2011

Hello people.

In the past days I went shooting humming birds in Cerro de la Muerte, Costa Rica with my camera and a decent lens a friend lended me. I got some decent shots and have edited them a bit after reading some tutorials on bird photography composition. Here's one of them (I'll post some more when I'm done editing):

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Original Image:

Cropped & Worked image:

I didn't do sharpening to the bird, just a bit in the eyes, it isn't necesary IMO. Cropped it so the bird isn't in the center of the image, leaving some space so he doesn't look cramped in the shot.

I'm watching ya

Original shot:

Cropped & Sharpened:

(I'm not sure about this one's composition)
Please C&C, do your own editing if you want as suggestions.

Hardrock · May 17, 2011

The cropped version looks good but the back ground is very noisy. Your profile says its ok to edit your photos hope you didnt mind. All I did was reduce the noise in the background in CS3. To me it really cleans the photo up. The sharpness is very good and great composition.

LuigiVN · May 18, 2011

Yeah, I tried to remove that noise in PS but All the filter did was add noise to the photo so I left it like that... Guess I need to keep reading tutorials

. All those hours reading about composition have given fruits

Thanks man.

After reading a small tutorial I think I got almost rid of it.. what do you think?

digital flower · May 18, 2011

I like the brightly colored bird. The first shot of him is better IMO.

LuigiVN · May 18, 2011

digital flower said:
I like the brightly colored bird. The first shot of him is better IMO.

Do you mean the uncropped one?

BlackSheep · May 26, 2011

I really like the first shot (cropped version) - the colours and composition work very well!

The second hummingbird is beautiful, but it's a shame that your photo doesn't include its' tail, that would have made for a much stronger image.

LuigiVN · May 28, 2011

BlackSheep said:
I really like the first shot (cropped version) - the colours and composition work very well!

The second hummingbird is beautiful, but it's a shame that your photo doesn't include its' tail, that would have made for a much stronger image.

Yeah! I would have liked that so much! While reviewing them I just decided to work a bit on it because well... That sharpness cannot be deleted imo...