It’s purple! Why aren’t there more purple birds?
Where do I go to see purple adorable hummingbirds? I would love to see some one day.
I took this in my back patio actually. I live in the Palm springs area. There are at least 3 of them total that live in my condo complex.
Love hummingbirds. Their wing motion is so mesmerising. Vicious bastards though.
They think they’re vicious anyway. CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP!!
Such a beautiful and proud birb.
Whats this? A therapod dinosaur filling the niche of a bee?
No one noticing this is a terrible photoshop makes me suspicious Lemmy is mostly bots and stupid people
I think you’re wrong. It’s called Calypte costae https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa’s_hummingbird
The image on Wikipedia and the one posted helps to show exactly why the post is a bad Photoshop.
Still not sure what you mean. The brightness of the colors changes alot according to the angle like you can see in videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlYecLQDaUM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDkeIVGmSA8
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They colorized the entire body. Note how only the upper half is purple in the Wikipedia article and the video.
In the post image, the whole body is purple by being colorized. Some of it can be seen bleeding off the edges of the subject and onto the branch.
I don’t know why they did this and other edits to an already-pretty bird.
I brightened the pic up in Lightroom for my own aesthetic purposes, but I don’t think I went overboard personally. The branch is actually a dried tip of a succulent so maybe that’s where you’re seeing coloration? Here’s another shot, unedited and zoomed out a little more.
It’s a great photo. Try not to give a shit about what some rando on the internet is complaining about. The adults in the room like your photo
Thanks for the original photo. It’s a awesome shot of a wonderful bird 👍
I mean it’s edited in Lightroom, but just lighting. The colors are not altered. Here’s the raw so you can compare.
Or maybe we just aren’t insufferable, chronically online people who have to scream “fake” at everything.
Yeah it’s a really obvious one, too. The person responding with the Wikipedia article and calling you wrong is actually providing evidence that it’s a bad photoshop.
Y’all are fucking harsh, damn. I just wanted to share my photography. It’s edited in Lightroom for lighting, but the colors are real. Here is the unedited version.
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