Anna's

[Scott Frye]

Anna's Hummingbird at Gilbert Water Ranch 09-19-2009

The light marks at the end of the bill is pollen as he is feeding at a nearby bush. I like the head position as most of my hummer shots the bird is parallel


1/2500 at f6.3 and ISO800 EC +1/3
Bigma at 500m
Canon 40D

[Randy Stout]

Scott:

I agree, very nice head position, gives a better sense of eye contact as well. Nice wing position.

I am seeing a fair amount of noise in the wings.

How did you light this one?

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Scott Frye]

Natural light -- very little processing

[Randy Stout]

Scott:

I appreciate the natural light hummer shots. I love some of the big setups, and would love to try them, but have done a modest amount of natural light shooting of our local ruby throateds, and appreciate the challenges of that style.

I do think it would be worthwhile to do some modest noise reduction.

Cheers

Randy

[Scott Frye]

Applied noise reduction to the wings

[Randy Stout]

Scott:

Somewhere between the two would be about perfect for me. In the repost, you have started to lose too much detail in the middle of the forewing.

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Scott, super comp and like the angle of the HB. Good job with the NR on your repost, and I feel it works with the motion blur of the wings.