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
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.
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.
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"
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.
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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!!!
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