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Hummingbird Portrait
Hummingbird Portrait
TomH1000


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Challenge: Color Portrait (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Olympus E-1
Lens: Olympus 300mm f/2.8 Zuiko Digital
Location: McDollows Nature Reserve - North Carolina
Date: Sep 5, 2005
Aperture: f/6.3
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1250
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Sep 6, 2005

Not all portraits are human. I had this little guy pose for me while I took his photo (-:

Statistics
Place: 100 out of 284
Avg (all users): 5.6221
Avg (commenters): 6.4211
Avg (participants): 5.4929
Avg (non-participants): 5.7358
Views since voting: 1713
Views during voting: 448
Votes: 299
Comments: 24
Favorites: 1 (view)


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09/21/2005 12:33:49 PM
Greetings from the Critique Club!!
What an amazing capture! The sharpness of the birds face and the flower, the movement in the wings, the colors, the composition, all perfect IMO. It seems there were a few voters who voted low on animal portraits, and many really good photos like yours suffered. I do not see anything this photo needs in the way of improvement.
Excellent job and keep shooting!
~~SiSi
09/19/2005 06:02:07 AM
Originally posted by Caltrop:

Beautiful photo but...

por•trait n.
1. A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.
n 1: a painting of a person's face 2: a word picture of a person's appearance and character 3: any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"


You forgot one.

Portrait - a representation of a person or group or animal on a two-dimensional medium that typically also shows some aspect symbolic of the subject.
09/19/2005 05:58:09 AM
Originally posted by Digital Quixote:

You may disagree with me, and that's okay, but this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge in my opinion.


And your reason for this is why? Yes, you are right and I don't agree with you. Portrait can be other then a person and no where did it say it had to be a person.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/18/2005 07:41:44 PM
You may disagree with me, and that's okay, but this doesn't meet the spirit of the challenge in my opinion.
09/17/2005 12:01:31 PM
Excellent humingbird portrait with perfect focus. I have unsuccessfully tried to get some good shots of one these guys.
09/16/2005 09:43:41 PM
Beautiful photo but...

por•trait n.
1. A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.
n 1: a painting of a person's face 2: a word picture of a person's appearance and character 3: any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits"
09/16/2005 08:21:55 PM
would have liked a bit more saturation in the orange and yellow channels to bring out more vibrance to the photo
  Photographer found comment helpful.
09/16/2005 12:41:46 AM
Nice!
09/15/2005 07:35:05 AM
too bad about that ant on the flower petal
09/14/2005 07:05:19 PM
some say this wouldn't be a portrait. I don't see why not. It's nice too. That's so amazing.
09/14/2005 12:28:11 PM
It's not a person...it's not even in portrait orientation. Dang, I'd have to give this a 1 if it weren't so damn good. I'm just kidding about the stuff above. Good capture. I am going to knock it a bit, but you still get a 7.
09/14/2005 05:11:11 AM
Beautiful photot and I wish I had taken it - I would also have entered it - I will give higher scores for those who managed to get recalcitrant people to pose for them though
09/14/2005 02:03:59 AM
This is the best portrait of a hummingbird I have ever seen. Can't wait to find out what camera you are using. Focus is right where it should be on his head, blurring of wings is great and all colors are too. If he had been up a bit higher so his beak was straight on with the flower, I would have scored it 11 , LOL, instead I have to give you a 10.
09/14/2005 01:12:59 AM
super detail...great composition
09/13/2005 10:12:59 AM
very nice portrait of something very tiny this scored a 9 for me because I have tried to photograph hummingbirds before and was never able to get the setting right. tom h?
09/12/2005 10:49:19 PM
Great Capture. I'm afrain that this will get marked down because people believe that a portrait can be of people, but in reality, a portrait is a photo of basically anything. This is great. Maybe if you could get a little more depth of the field. Still, a 9
09/12/2005 10:28:22 PM
10
09/12/2005 08:34:01 PM
Wow...what an amazing capture. Bravo. Great hummingbird portrait. 10! and best of luck in the challenge!
09/12/2005 06:52:19 PM
Nice capture.. great focus and very nice background blur
09/12/2005 01:12:38 PM
Very good photo, but didn't feel it was in the spirit of the challenge. Felt like it would be unfare to others to give the score it probably deserved IMO.
09/12/2005 11:28:07 AM
and an ant! pretty. (:
09/12/2005 09:27:15 AM
Excellent capture. Amazing DOF.
09/12/2005 08:54:47 AM
Motion blur in a portrait? If you had managed to stop the motion in the wngs you would have realy impressed me. This is definately the most challenging poartait to capture I have seen so far in the challenge. Best of luck with the Non-Human portait. I think the voters will eat you alive with does not fit the challenge. So I vote higher than usual to hold a fraction of the ingnorance at bay. Wonderfull work, and nicely done!!!
09/12/2005 12:47:19 AM
Quite a fantastic camera you must have, however its a portrait contest, and im one of those buttholes that thought it should include a human subject.


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