Birds and Water Fowl

[Digger...]

Dopey Cocky,

 

[21limited]

Did you put the hummingbird feeder back out?

Increase your shutter speed, say 400 minimum for a still subject and that'll help with camera shake/motion blur at telephoto distances. Depending on ones own personal hand shake.

The hummingbird, bump that up to 2000, 2500.

Ps. The Green Jay rocks!

It's one of the 6 of oneself dozen of.theother situations. You increase you shutter speed, buy using faster aperture, and you get out of focus wings because of Depth of Field. Reduce you shutter speed and you get blurry wings because of motion blur. But the absolute lowest for hummers is probably about 1/1000s.
1/1250 DOF increased by shootigfrom a longer distance.
2017-08-21-Ruby_Throated_Hummingbird-F by Norm Head, on Flickr

Much closer
1/4000 wing blur from lack of DoF. Already at ISO 1250 to 1/4000s
Birds-Ruby-throaated-Hummingbird by Norm Head, on Flickr

I found one image on flickr with good inflight wing detail.

ƒ 6.3 240mm 1/3200s 500 ISO. This year I'll give it try.


Loooking at the other images in the eries, it looks like he got lucky., the wings were back close to the body and incuded in teh ƒ6.3 DoF. Other images where the wings are spead wider they aren’t clear. SO, fast shutter speed hoping ot catch the wins in a burst might be the key.

I might even consider higher ISO and ƒ8 or ƒ11.
A project for the summer.
Hummers have ben spotted in migrating numbers, 100 mile sout of htere. Our feeders are out waiting for thier arrival.

I’ll also consider shooting from a little further away to increase DoF. I’ve always tried to get as close as posible.
I made a new plan Stan.

 

[Digger...]

It's one of the 6 of oneself dozen of.theother situations. You increase you shutter speed, buy using faster aperture, and you get out of focus wings because of Depth of Field. Reduce you shutter speed and you get blurry wings because of motion blur. But the absolute lowest for hummers is probably about 1/1000s.
1/1250 DOF increased by shootigfrom a longer distance.
2017-08-21-Ruby_Throated_Hummingbird-F by Norm Head, on Flickr

Much closer
1/4000 wing blur from lack of DoF. Already at ISO 1250 to 1/4000s
Birds-Ruby-throaated-Hummingbird by Norm Head, on Flickr

I found one image on flickr with good inflight wing detail.

ƒ 6.3 240mm 1/3200s 500 ISO. This year I'll give it try.


Loooking at the other images in the eries, it looks like he got lucky., the wings were back close to the body and incuded in teh ƒ6.3 DoF. Other images where the wings are spead wider they aren’t clear. SO, fast shutter speed hoping ot catch the wins in a burst might be the key.

I might even consider higher ISO and ƒ8 or ƒ11.
A project for the summer.
Hummers have ben spotted in migrating numbers, 100 mile sout of htere. Our feeders are out waiting for thier arrival.

I’ll also consider shooting from a little further away to increase DoF. I’ve always tried to get as close as posible.
I mae a new plan Stan.

They have the most iridescent feathers!

Wish we had hummers here, I'd enjoy this bird. Be so easy to capture since there just fluttering away in the same spot while eating.

 

[Jeff15]

Red Kite

 

[Underdog]

Did you put the hummingbird feeder back out?

Increase your shutter speed, say 400 minimum for a still subject and that'll help with camera shake/motion blur at telephoto distances. Depending on ones own personal hand shake.

The hummingbird, bump that up to 2000, 2500.

Ps. The Green Jay rocks!

It's one of the 6 of oneself dozen of.theother situations. You increase you shutter speed, buy using faster aperture, and you get out of focus wings because of Depth of Field. Reduce you shutter speed and you get blurry wings because of motion blur. But the absolute lowest for hummers is probably about 1/1000s.
1/1250 DOF increased by shootigfrom a longer distance.
2017-08-21-Ruby_Throated_Hummingbird-F by Norm Head, on Flickr

Much closer
1/4000 wing blur from lack of DoF. Already at ISO 1250 to 1/4000s

I might even consider higher ISO and ƒ8 or ƒ11.
A project for the summer.
Hummers have ben spotted in migrating numbers, 100 mile sout of htere. Our feeders are out waiting for thier arrival.

I’ll also consider shooting from a little further away to increase DoF. I’ve always tried to get as close as posible.
I made a new plan Stan.

Unfortunately, It seems the hummingbirds left to go north probably. We get them with a springtime cold snap.

I'm Afraid of ISO.
I've had some coarse texture look to some when I try higher ISO's.
They can't be enlarged if they were to be printed I would think; although it's been a while since I've printed anything.
They looked ok when you send them to a phone.

Thanks for the tips, I don't always pay attention to my settings. I just take high volumes of pictures and get one I like. I remember when film was pretty expensive and every shot counted.
I've become a spoiled hack.

Here's a couple that I attribute to my neighbor for parking her car there. It gave me the contrast I needed.

I tried to time it at the apex of their wings when they have to stop the momentum at the peak of the flap so they have to slow down and go back in the other direction.
LOLOLOL

 

[21limited]

The seond one looks good, although hard to make out the detail.. The first one looks good as well.

Thanks for the tips, I don't always pay attention to my settings. I just take high volumes of pictures and get one I like. I remember when film was pretty expensive and every shot counted.
I've become a spoiled hack.

Ya, I always see what I should have done when I look t them on my computer.

 

[Underdog]

The seond one looks good, although hard to make out the detail.. The first one looks good as well.



Ya, I always see what I should have done when I look t them on my computer.

Yeah, but as much time and as many chances as I had, I could have been more disciplined.
Is it my imagination but are there more picture of hummingbird's wings in the farthest back position than others?

I like the entire branch; motion's not as noticeable. And the composition is better.