Backyard Black-Chinned Hummer

[Doug Brown]

I was on call this weekend and had to work every day. But I did manage to squeeze in a few minutes of hummingbird photography. I was rewarded with this image of a Black-Chinned Hummingbird male.



Canon 50D, 70-200mm f/4 + 1.4x @ 280mm, f/20, 1/200, ISO 320, manual exposure, 5 flashes, tripod

[Randy Stout]

Doug:

Well, you made your free time count! The gorget and tail are my favorite points. Excellent exposure, nice comp.
The focus point appears to have been behind the eye just a bit, as the gorget, breast and tail are sharper than the wing. I would have thought that f/stop would have been enough DOF, but you must have been in pretty close!

My only other comment would be that I wish I could see some of the far wing.

Thanks for sharing this beauty.

Randy

[Daniel Cadieux]

Fantastic detail on the tail feathers. I would just apply a small round of sharpening on the face, and would prefer to see the bird smaller in the frame (personal taste).

[Kobus Tollig]

I so much want to get something like this. WEll done great bg comp and detail.

[Stu Bowie]

Doug, Ive always enjoyed your hummers, and this is no exception. Brilliant detail in those tail feathers, Lovely iridescense on the neck, well exposed throughout, and frozen in mid air. Congrats.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Beautiful gorget, love those purple colors.

The fanned tail also adds lost of dynamism to your image. Killer BG, congrats.

[Don Anderson]

Excellent, I can't even see the string.. :D :D :D

[Dan Brown]

Great work Doug! Not easy to get the BC's gorget color and this is very nice! Nice pose!

[Ramon M. Casares]

Perfect DOF, light, pose, BG, comp, exposure and outstanding detail! Big, Huge congratulations!