Excellent work Eyal!

One of your best!

Top marks!

Good timing to say the least!

A post that should reach Top 1 imo.

Well done!

Very WOW Excellent work!!!!!
+10/10

PERFECT!!!!
Awesome capture, dudeman!!!
Deserve a MOST BIG AMAZING!!™

Great capture !

excellent shot.
great timing.

Almost perfect . . . .+10

Great capture. I wouldn't even dare to try making a pic like this, as I will fail! My only crit is that it lacks some sharpness. Maybe pushing the blacks in the eye would add some sense of extra sharpness (that's what I would try). Keep it up

Mm, did you do a repost? Looks sharper than when I commented, or maybe that's just me. Makes my crit rather odd Great job

WoW!!!.......Look at that!!......wonderful capture!!
Very well done!!.....top marks!!
Carlos

Wonderful work, excellent timing Eyal!!!!
+10

Very nice! A fairly good sharpness of a difficult subject. The body feathers seem a bit muddled.

I agree with Michell and yes, you can improve a bit sharpness!
But for the rest WOW

Superb!

Freeze! A difficult and amazing shot. I'm not sure I like the state of the flowers and how they're pointing down. But, there is still a circular eye motion moving through the piece which is good.

+10!

Good choice of using a flash for this as it served to freeze the motion very well. 1/90 sec. shutter without the flash would have completely blurred the wings.
An excellent capture!

Thanks muchly for the comments!

@ Matthijs (MeAndMyCam), First thing first:

I once gave some1 here a tip about how to improve a photo. S/he did what I suggested (in about 5 minutes), never said a word, and possibly for everyone else who had not seen the original, my comment appeared petty. I would never take yours or anyone else's advice without a following announcement and a big thank you.

Your crit does not seem odd, it is still most correct. The sharpness in this picture is good, I think, but it is soft!

I would have followed your suggestion. I believe the eye can be sharpened, but the way I processed this picture was not clever, and now I'll need to start a 3 hour work all over, so I'll leave it as it is.

This soft sharpness is normally what one gets, using a flash to compensate for the low shutter speed when exposure time goes below 1/100.

The time of day was late, and the 50 pictures I took between 17:00-19:00 were bad attempts. This is when these little guys are most active unfortunately, and by 19:03 I needed to use the flash. It makes things even worse because my flash causes a delay of about a second, about half the time hummingbirds spend in one spot. This was an 'against all odds' shot.

And I am not fully happy with it. I keep trying for months now to get a better picture.

@ Patrick (moserArtist): thank you so much for your suggestions and help in private channels.

Thanks to everyone else for your comments and critiques of this work and others. I learn from each.

great capture.... well done dude

......very well done

beautiful capture!!!!! amazing how you got the sharpness on this busy subject ;-)

looks really plastic!!! very nice

It took a long while but finally this beautiful composition made top 10.

I think it deserves more!

hmm
it hink i know this hummingbird
nice shot man

Another great picture, Eyal. Nice work

Such a beautiful capture!

Excellent work!!

Great capture Eyal!
cool work

beautiful shot.

I'm envious