Frans Lanting style reference and prompts

High-detail color wildlife photography with an isolated near subject and a very shallow depth of field. Hold the eye, body pattern, and key contours crisp while letting distant color dissolve into broad, soft patches. A small moving form can be arranged on a diagonal, with open space in its direction of travel and one wing or appendage providing an upward counterline. Rich turquoise, green, orange, and reddish accents stand against darker natural greens, but the light should preserve fine tonal variation rather than oversaturating every surface. Thin structures can remain translucent, showing ribs and overlapping layers. The background is present as color and atmosphere, not as identifiable scenery. The overall effect is vivid, precise, and fleeting, combining biological texture with a graceful sense of motion.

A square close wildlife image holds a hummingbird in midair, suspended against a completely blurred field of deep green, warm orange, and muted red. The bird's long, narrow bill points horizontally to the left. A bright round eye sits in an orange and blue head, surrounded by tiny sharply patterned feathers. The throat and upper breast gleam turquoise blue with dark scalloped marks, shifting into green and orange flecks across the side and back. The small body angles diagonally downward toward the right, ending in a narrow orange-red tail with dark tips. One broad wing rises from the shoulder into the upper right of the frame, its individual translucent brown flight feathers spread like a fan. A second wing is visible only as a softer pale lavender-and-brown shape behind it. The feet are tucked near the underside and do not dominate the silhouette. There is no visible flower, branch, nest, or ground: the bird's pose and colored feather texture occupy the scene by themselves. The background's colored patches are broad and out of focus, with a warm orange bloom left of the bird's neck, dark green above and behind, and reddish areas near the lower corners. This soft field sets off the crisp bill, eye, feather pattern, and wing ribs. The composition leaves open space in front of the bill while the raised wing and trailing tail make a dynamic diagonal through the right half. Even light across the body preserves the iridescent-looking blues and greens without turning the wing into a flat opaque block. The image celebrates the precise shape and color of a brief airborne instant.