Ruby-throated Hummingbird by CavalierLady

Photography • Animals • posted on Aug 27, 2007

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Description

I finally figured out that manual focus works better than auto focus for these fast birds, for me anyway. Auto focus just works too hard and overcompensates. Only problem is that manual focus is not that easy, either! This is about a 65 percent crop and I cloned out the bit of red plastic flower on the right side. This one's not quite there yet, but it's fun trying. First time I have gotten an in flight shot or tried manual focus. Also the first Ruby I have seen this year. Thanks very much for looking and thanks for your previous comments!

Comments (47)

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Littlejock

5:47PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Very lucky capture you got here. Congratulations. Excellent work

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BigKat70_

5:49PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Amazing image capture hugs Kathy

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SAVANNAMORNINGDOVE

5:51PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Beautiful!! :o )

MrsLubner

5:52PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

This is excellent. I tried the auto focus on my camera with hummers too and it was a failure. The manual focus was better but it took more time to set up my shot and get a focus lock...still the quality of the shot was better. I also used the sports mode on mine to even further hone in on a still shot. This is an excellent shot! I have two different sorts of hummers... Anna's hummingbird and the Ruby Throated hummingbird.

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Margana

6:03PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

I adore them. This is wonderful!!!

spen66

6:06PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Wonderful shot, well done. Always wanted to capture one of these, together with a King Fisher - both beautiful birds but diffcult to find!

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LudyMelltSekher

6:07PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

{@}>---Hello my dear friend,Excellent work.Wonderful photo.A million stars from my ***Thanks you very much.Happy day, Hug and kiss in Your heart. Luminous blesing.Ludy<---<---@

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SSoffia

6:18PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

BEAUTIFUL IMAGE !!!!! Felicidades !!!!;)

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rainbows

6:20PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

A wonderful capture, Maria. Such a beautiful bird, I long to see one in real.. Hugs. Diane.

jared99

6:40PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Beautiful shot!

Valerie-Ducom

6:41PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

So beautiful ! Good day :)

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kansas

6:46PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

A wonderful capture. Your postwork looks fine. A beautiful hummingbird.

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goodoleboy

7:04PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Oooh, oooh, oooh, a one in a trillion shot, dear CavLady! Fantastic POV in this capture of the elusive bird in flight, with wings flapping at faster-than-light speed, not to mention the fine clarity, soft lighting and textures of the tiny avian. Just terrific.

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GBCalls

7:10PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Impressive! Excellent timing and results

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water

7:30PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Excellent !

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EdwinDrix

7:30PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Amazing capture. Colors and depth of field are beautiful. Excellent.

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Pannyhb

7:57PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

He sure looks handsome to me!

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gradient

8:25PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Awesome capture of this guy...I've only seen one of them in my garden all year! Congrats!!!

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gargoyle84

8:32PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

This is stunning, Maria! You do awesome work with capturing birds! The postwork is wonderful, too! :^)

amorales

8:34PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Impressive shot! Technically difficult to do.

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whtknight

8:35PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

A wonderful capture,there is a calming effect to this image, Well Done!

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npauling

8:35PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

A lovely shot. I would love to see a real humming bird, you are lucky to have them in your garden. They look so cute.

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Digitaleagle

8:38PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Excellent capture, I love to watch my hummers fighting over the feeder great backward entertainment.

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maggiemai

8:39PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Oh I just love hummingbirds! This is a wonderful capture! You say it's not quite there yet but it sure looks perfect to me!! :-) Excellent!!

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Leeco

9:11PM | Mon, 27 August 2007

Great timing and capture. Fine details are visible and the feet are just amazing. I seldom use auto focus on my little pocket Nikon for the exact reasons you mentioned - too slow and sometimes unable to lock on the subject, especially in high contrast situations such as spiders on a web and silhouetted against a sky or humming birds/Dragonflies, etc hovering. This is a pretty dang nice shot of a beautiful little flying critter. Thanks for sharing. Lee

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