Instants d'éternité
Hummingbird
Posted by Martine Lapointe (Québec, Canada) on 7 June 2007 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.
Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona
Thanks everybody for all your goods comments today! I appreciate it very much.
Helen from Melbourne, Australia
This is by far the most beautiful hummingbird shot I have ever seen. Focus, composition, colour, contrast .... just perfect.
7 Jun 2007 7:00am
Herve from Paris, France
Same comment as Helen. This is a wonderful picture. The colours and tone are very soft and well dispatched. The focus is perfectly mastered on the eyes of the bird. The DOF is short enough and gives the focus on the subject.
You can sell it to a nature revue or make posters with it !
7 Jun 2007 7:36am
Louis D. from Lyon, France
Herve told it the way I wished in the message up mine !
Creat capture !
7 Jun 2007 8:23am
craiger from United States
I agree with Helen! Best hummingbird shot I've seen also!!! Just Excellent!
7 Jun 2007 8:27am
Manuela Photography from Hainburg, Germany
Incredibly beautiful!! As Helen and Hervé already mention, best I have ever seen so far.
7 Jun 2007 8:33am
{H} creatives from Santa Clara, United States
This shot is tremendous! Wow! Great tones, nice framing and composition, sharp! Simply beautiful...
7 Jun 2007 8:37am
Yvon from Meerkerk, Netherlands
Excellent! What a great job you did! I totally agree with Hellen and Herve.
7 Jun 2007 8:40am
Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece
I am jelous when people take shots like this one, BRAVO WELL DONE , it is like a painting 3D
7 Jun 2007 9:06am
Scene by Sharon Photography from Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Agree fully with all the comments made before - absolutely fantastic capture!
7 Jun 2007 11:22am
Carson from Portland, United States
That is just amazing! Really wonderful capture.
7 Jun 2007 11:48am
MaryB from United Kingdom
STUNNING!!!!!
I agree with what has already been said. A truly amazing photo! :)
7 Jun 2007 1:48pm
dee from Innsbruck, Austria
Excellent and really amazing. You did a really great job there!
7 Jun 2007 2:10pm
Jen from Jessup, United States
Absolutely stunning shot!!! Beautiful focus, framing and colors A++++++
7 Jun 2007 2:39pm
Amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada
Perfect, indeed!! I am so jealous!! LOL I'm still waiting for my friends to return home... I so hope that this year I can get a shot equal to this. Bravo!!!!!!
7 Jun 2007 3:12pm
Imarchi from Madrid, Spain
wow! i am amazed! maybe it is true the frame is too tight (the tail and wings are a little bit cut up and down, did you crop it?), but the scene, the colours, the focus, sharpness, everytying else, is incredible! i want a lens like yours (263mm?)!!
7 Jun 2007 4:35pm
@Imarchi: I didn't crop the picture. To obtain this good one, I took about 50 pictures! (and I destroy a lot of them!) I used for this picture a Sigma lense 70-300 mm without image stabilisator. I don't like it and I change for a 70-200mm F4 Canon IS USM. I hope that it will give me more succes than the Sigma!
Johnny Soedomo from United States
great shot.. i like how the face of the hummingbird is sharp
7 Jun 2007 5:18pm
Rachel from United States
Amazing shot! I tried to photograph hummingbirds not long ago and they're definately not the easiest thing to capture :) But you did a great job here. The colors and the composition are just beautiful!
7 Jun 2007 6:17pm
##AMIT## from Santa Clara, CA, United States
You could capture such a nice shot of bird in an museum. Lovely shot..
7 Jun 2007 9:32pm
Richard_Irwin from Belper, United Kingdom
Absolutely spot on, a stunning image, incredible. good skills
7 Jun 2007 9:56pm
Agathe from Gatineau, Canada
Cette photo est remarquable dans ses multiples détails: l'oeil de l'oiseau-mouche, la disposition des ailes, les pattes repliées mais visibles, la verticale dessinée du bec jusqu'à la queue et surtout la brindille dans le bec.
Il a de quoi être fière. Bravo Martine!
7 Jun 2007 11:12pm
@Agathe: Merci beaucoup Agathe!
Bob from New Jersey, United States
Amazing picture, one you should be very proud of.
8 Jun 2007 3:49am
Lucca from Cologne, Germany
What a beautiful and perfect capture!!! I absolutely love it!
8 Jun 2007 12:32pm
Nick Passantino from Bronx, United States
Without a doubt the best hummingbird shot i've seen.. Fantastic capture
10 Jun 2007 5:00am
@Nicole: Thanks Nicole!
Mary the Poétaniste from Orléans, France
Bonjour,
Une magnifique photo pour un bel oiseau qui me fait penser à cette liberté qui embellit la vie...
La liberté qui embellit la vie,
est venue reverdir
la poussière de mon coeur,
et a répandu sur mon visage
la douceur de vivre.
La liberté qui remplit le coeur,
est arrivée heureuse,
les mains pleines d’éternité,
et a réconcilié mon esprit
à l’idée de croire en elle.
La liberté qui possède le temps,
s’est montrée à moi,
le temps d’un instant,
et est restée près de moi
pour me montrer la beauté.
Bien à vous et excellente après-midi, Mary
© La Poétaniste
29 Jun 2008 1:36pm
Jean-Michel from Brussels, Belgium
Une image digne du "Nat.Géo" !
Exceptionnelle !
2 Sep 2008 6:51pm
Tubby from Singapore, Singapore
This is beautiful... great shot... i like the color contrast & composition.
29 Nov 2009 11:54am
@Tubby: Thank you very much! For me, it's one of my best!
@Twinklestamper: Thank you and an happy 2010 to you to!
Eric from Narbonne, France
c est un très beau cliché ! woow, j aime beaucoup le mélanges couleurs / ombres, c est super
bravo !
19 Dec 2010 5:35pm
Canon EOS REBEL XT
1/1000 second
F/5.6
ISO 400
263 mm
