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Rufus and Bee Balm

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Posted by Andy Purviance on July 30, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Yeah, I haven't been around to post much either. But, here's a shot from this weekend of a Rufus hummer buzzing around some bee balm in the back yard.

Canon 300D, 200mm cropped in, f/4, 1/1250, 200 ISO
Posted by Tomas Kaspar on July 30, 2006 at 12:42 PM
Nice hummi shot. Love those little suckers :smile:
Posted by Curtis Knight on July 30, 2006 at 8:17 PM
nice! seems like it could use a bit of contrast and/or saturation, or possibly just burning in the BG a bit would do the trick. Nice focus on the eye! :toast:
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on July 31, 2006 at 12:49 AM
You couldn't wish for much better than this, Andy, even if the background isn't a perfect backdrop (I'd sure be happy with this shot!). You were johnny on the spot to get this.
Posted by Eric Hahl on July 31, 2006 at 9:14 AM
I like it too. I like the crop you did.
Posted by Andy Purviance on August 1, 2006 at 1:36 PM
Thanks for commenting. Looking at this again the background does look too warm and and muddy. I guess I was only looking at the flower and bird for color balance. :cool:

One of the good things about shooting RAW - if you know you're going to crop an image then up-sizing in PSD RAW converter does a littler better job than "Image Size".