Hummingbird and bokeh

That's the original image after some processing above. Nice try but the bird and that branch on the right aren't quite in focus. But I love the colors in the bokeh -- the stuff in the background that's out of focus. 

So I tried fixing it by cropping it tighter -- goodbye branch -- and darkening it so that the bird is in silhouette. Much better. Maybe needs to be a little lighter. This is one of those pics I'll obsess about and process 18 different ways. 




Camera settings: Nikon D5100 (DX, or cropped), Nikon DX 70 to 300mm lens at 300mm, ISO 800, 1/1600 shutter, f/5.6.

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--S.H.

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