Monteverde Hummingbird

I am curious of what people think. Most pictures have hummingbirds

next to flowers, but these were mostly feeding at feeders, and I

didn't want to capture the artificial feeder.

 

I used ISO 800 film, because I was in the rainforest and there

wasn't much light. My only other film at the time was Provia 100F.

 

I am curious whether others will suggest that I have switched to

that slide film. This would have made me change my exposure. My

meter was reading f5.6 1/250sec. Three stops would have put me at

f4 1/60sec or f2.8 1/125 sec. OR I could have made the background

darker by one stop f4 1/125sec and use the flash more. What would

you have done?

This looks noisy, but I'm guessing that's high ISO or fast film? I'd crop a bit off the right, but that's just my opinion - it's nice as it is.

If the sharpness would hold up, I'd crop it. However, this is really nice with the multicolor background blurred...

Have you tried neat image for cleaning grain & noise, this is a great image. attached is your image run though this program

Thanks for the tip, Tom. Another friend of mine suggested Noise Ninja, and I just tried it. It is fantastic. I am really excited to work with Noise Ninja and to print this.