Caption

This is one of my favorite hummingbird photos that I have in my collection. It's taken using a technique called multiple-flash that is quite popular but difficult to do well. The hardest thing is to make the flash lighting look natural. Careful placement of my flashes gave a completely natural look to this picture of a Green-crowned Brilliant visiting a Costus flower in the Costa Rican highlands

Date

Jun 04, 2010

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Gregory Basco

Reference

BRK26C78_452

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34.5Mb (655.1Kb) / 9.4in x 14.2in / 2832 x 4256 (300dpi)

Keywords

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