Graydon, Thanks, you are a wealth of information! Getting humming birds in focus is a real challenge. What surprised me was seeing the feather detail on the back/wings. I'll have to see if I can do better on the head. I have some with head feathers, but the pose is not so good. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 12:13:41AM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit: >> Bob Sullivan wrote: >>> Here's a keeper from yesterday. >>> >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=9740173&size=lg >>> >>> K7 and A400/5.6 >>> 1/250th @ F8 and ISO 800 >>> >>> They are tiny creatures but pretty fearless. >>> I was nearly at the close focus limit of the 400mm. >>> This was a crop of about 2,000 pixels on a side. >>> Added about 1 stop of exposure and 23? fill in Lightroom. >>> >>> Comments or suggestions? >> Yes and now I hate you too... > > Resign yourself to widespread loathing? > > Hummingbird photos where you can follow the feather tracts on the head > are somewhat rare. I would not be surprised if your local ornithologist > would be really pleased to have anything like this you've got, or > anybody publishing a book on hummingbirds. > > -- Graydon > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
