Rufous Hummingbird

[Mark Schmitt]

Comming through the area during migration. I would like to have had a bit more DOF and a little faster Tv.

Location: Wofford Hts, CA
Conditions: summer, hot

EXIF
Camera: Canon 30D
Lense: Canon EF 500 IS L @ f 4.0
Shooting Parameters: 1/800 @ f 7.1
Metering Mode: Pattern
ISO: 320
Ev comp: -.66
Fill flash: Canon 580 EX gun, Better Beamer extender, -1.33 comp
White bal: custom 5400 K
Mono pod

Work flow: Lightroom 1.4; CS2 post process

[Neil Losin]

Terrific pose, Mark! I might not go with such a square crop, if there are other cropping options.

[Fabs Forns]

I used to do ISO 400 on the 20D, in fact, you could go to ISO 500 and run noise reduction in the 30D without much problem. That would increase either of your variables or both.
Very nice pose, I'd smooth the right side of the BG a little bit.

[Ramon M. Casares]

I am with Neil about the square format, but other than that I like the pose and ghe blurred wing, the colours of the BG are great as the detail and light! Congratulations!

[Doug Brown]

I like it a lot as presented! Tac-sharp head and eye with a great BG. I don't know if you could have stopped down enough to get those tail feathers sharp. Have you thought about blurring the in-focus ones? It's a little distracting to have some of the tail feathers sharp and some not.