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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: Tristin on June 26, 2017, 22:12:13

Title: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Tristin on June 26, 2017, 22:12:13

We have a hummingbird nested in a tree in front of our apartment building conveniently located next to our stairs.  I just got my camera back from service and decided to go take a shot of the young and got quite lucky!

Nikkor 200mm f/4 ai @f/5.6

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Thomas G on June 26, 2017, 22:52:38

She really looks eager to feed. Nice animal life catch.

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Anthony on June 26, 2017, 22:57:25

That is beautiful.  I have never seen such a thing.  The lovely green tones enhance the overall image.

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Akira on June 26, 2017, 23:05:13

Quote from: Anthony on June 26, 2017, 22:57:25

I have never seen such a thing.

Me neither.  Great find and capture!

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Randy Stout on June 27, 2017, 00:18:52

Tristin:

Nice feeding action, good eye contact with the chick, strong environmental feel.

If you have enough pixels to do it, I might crop in a bit tighter to eliminate some of the very bright background areas.

Cheers

Randy

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: armando_m on June 27, 2017, 00:26:46

Nice capture

I had a nest in my backyard a couple of years ago, I had to put the camera with a remote or the mother wouldn't land

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Mongo on June 27, 2017, 00:39:51

great opportunity taken advantage of. You did well with no flash under that foliage..........post processing ???

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Tristin on June 27, 2017, 01:12:58

Quote from: Mongo on June 27, 2017, 00:39:51

great opportunity taken advantage of. You did well with no flash under that foliage..........post processing ???

I don't catch your drift re the post processing with the emoji.  The only thing I did outside of adjustments during raw conversion was a channel mixer filter set to a low opacity to shape the tones.  Here is the raw converted with zero adjustment if you are interested in seeing what difference my PP made, roughly cropped to be similar.

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Mongo on June 27, 2017, 05:54:34

thanks Tristin for your explanation. What Mongo meant was that he  though it would have been dark under the foliage, yet, the subjects in the image are close to the lighting of their surrounds.  Without a flash, this would only have been with some post processing. As it is, it seems that Mongo was wrong to assume it must have been dark under the foliage. The simple answer seems to be that you got the exposure correct in camera irrespective of the circumstances. Nicely done.

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Tristin on June 27, 2017, 06:23:41

Yeah, it was dark under the foliage.  Hence the iso 4500.  Gotta love modern sensors!

Title: Re: Hummingbird feeding her young
Post by: Hugh_3170 on June 27, 2017, 16:47:52

I totally agree.  This is indeed lovely.

Quote from: Anthony on June 26, 2017, 22:57:25

That is beautiful.  I have never seen such a thing.  The lovely green tones enhance the overall image.