Create the folders.
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I really couldn’t say. I’m not an expert by any means, but I know that hummers are very territorial, so if you place food sources in different places that are out of sight from one another then you’ll likely have more hanging around your property. At least that’s what my hard-core birder friends will do.
Wow, many answers, such a beautiful picture !
I could not avoid joining the party.
But it was a struggle with the flowers.
Eventually I had to give up with filmic, It doesn’t work for me with saturated blues.
Had to build the tone curve manually and also use the channel mixer to keep the blues to a realistic tone.
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Thanks. I don’t have that variety. I checked on internet and effectively it seems that the color should be rather that:
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I couldn’t achieve a good result with filmic.
I kept the same crop you used for better comparison.
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PS: I don’t know why, but the forum decided that the jpeg must be downsized …
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I think you’ve come closest to the actual bloom. It’s funny how blue flowers have become so hard to capture!
I wanted to make the bird stand out and, essentially, hide the flowers. Didn’t accomplish it as well as I wanted; not sure where to go from here to do that.
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Nice edit!
I think you did a nice job with the colorbalance(1) instance of getting rid of that nasty blue. Admittedly those flowers are still somewhat in-your-face (taking the hiding part into account).
You could use the tone curve module to push them back a bit more creating a parametric mask using the a and b channel and playing a bit with Lab, independent channels. Here’s your sidecar, but with an added tone curve to give you an idea of what I mean: bird.cr2.xmp (22.2 KB)
Good suggestion, thanks. There’s something about the flowers that makes it seem as the picture is in 3d, and the flowers are closer to the viewer. That’s the best way I can describe it. I will play around with your idea.
Nice job! Those flowers are tough to work with, but then again those bright colors are what attracts hummers
the reconstruct colour option in the highlights reconstruction module seemed to do the trick fairly well.
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based on this, a second version:
quite simple with the colour zones module.
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What I found most difficult was bringing the blue flowers in line with real life, which is hard to do if you don’t know what they should be in the first place: Big Swing Salvia. The problem I had was the blues started out of gamut, and the corrections would send them to a different hue. I’d say your second was closer than the first
that would have been a better reference, never mind, close enough.
@Dave22152 It might be the angle or composition (or just me) but I feel like it is jamming its beak in the flower rather than taking a delicate sip or lick. 
@Underexposed Yours still stands out because the bird is well done (not in the edible way 
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Yes, he was very uncooperative and had poor table manners that day.
At a plant exposition at Chateau de Chantilly, I met a art book editor. I noticed he had some art reproductions of photos and paints of salvia and by chance there was one of Big Swing salvia. he said it’s a production from north american plant breeders.
It’s a gorgeous plant.
The color was dark blue or cobalt blue without any violet color.
I wonder why it is not possible to get this color without some trick (color zone…)
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You can get the basic hue, but the fine gradations of that hue are lost in sRGB without a well-considered transform
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Others will have better technical explainations, but the problem is that the blues were out of gamut and were difficult to bring in line without seriously changing the color.
Do you have a sidecar for your second version?