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I believe this is a Male Allen's Hummingbird (if you know better than I please share!). I have a lot of these guys (and girls) showing up in my yard at the feeders. I also have an ugly faded brown fence all around the backyard so I have been looking for POVs that will eliminate that in the photos. I just had to lean down a bit more and shoot upwards. Waahlah, no ugly fence!
Loved the fact this was quite a different pose on the birds body than how they look while feeding. The spread tail feathers are particularly interesting to me. In fact, if I remember correctly this was just after a taste of food before he flew off.
The settings are (I don't think the EXIF will be there since I had to use Neat Image trial version to reduce some noise and it erases it); Manual mode and Manual Focus; 400 ISO, 1/1250 shutter and f/7.1 with the Canon 70-300mm.
Thanks for looking and all your kind comments.
-Bruce
PS ZOOM of course is a larger view!
Comments (18)
kgb224
Super sharp capture of these beauty's my friend. God Bless.
photosynthesis
Great capture & sharpness of detail - seems like this would be a challenging shot to get...
junge1
Fantastic capture Bruce. I have been trying to capture them, but I am always too slow or out of focus!
netot
Superb! Love color, light and DOF!
alanwilliams
skillfully done, a wonderful picture
durleybeachbum
You are so clever! Wonderful result.
tennesseecowgirl
wow Bruce beautiful job, thanks for including your settings great way to learn.
Crabbycabby
Stunning Image. Great work.
Katraz
Brilliant shot.
0rest4wicked
Thought it an Orange Roufus at first, an instant fav!
Juliette.Gribnau
awesome !!
whaleman
Just a wonderful shot!
morningglory
Great details in this difficult capture.
thecytron
Xcellent photo capture!
sandra46
SUPERLATIVE SHOT
neoexcello
Spectacular pose!!! Quite unique shot. Bravo.
Blush
I just know the Ruby Throat Hummer...that is what I get mostly at my feeders here in Ky..... Would love to see one of these jewels down here......I don't know what the name of this hummer is but you have captured him beautifully I have up one or two pics of hummers in my gallery...... this one gets 10 stars from me....**and a fav too Hope you come visit me in my gallery once again Susan~
praep
Awesome result for a manual focused shot. Thanks for sharing the exif-informations. If your software cuts the EXIF away you can use exiftool to copy the original exif-data from one shot to another by using this commandline: exiftool -TagsFromFile original.crw copy.jpg Hope this will help you.