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Got lucky again with a female! - DP - 08-30-2014
You know, I'm having fun today. Even tho I'm doing yard work I've had the SX40 with me so I can be ready for a photo op. Well, a couple of years ago on Labor Day weekend I got some good pix of a female hummingbird and she-or, at least a hummer-has been hanging around our gardens every Summer since.
So I've been on the lookout to get more shots as this one is at our flowers quite a bit. I saw her at the blue salvia and she saw me and flew off. I put on my patience cap, got the 40 ready, and waited.
She came back! And, although the last time I got pix I was using my 5D Mk. II, I've been wanting to see what the SX40 can do.
I had to shoot fast, and I set it on Manual, ISO 800, f5.6@1/1600th, and just fired away. I'm going to work on them a bit as these are cropped a lot, too. But they're not too noisy considering they're at ISO 800 and cropped.
I still like my SX40!
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - sekker - 08-30-2014
Great photo!
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - WHiiP - 08-30-2014
Whatever you are doing . . . it is working!
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - space-time - 08-30-2014
how do you know it is female?
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - Speedy - 08-30-2014
space-time wrote:
how do you know it is female?
Short proboscis.
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - DP - 08-30-2014
space-time wrote:
how do you know it is female?
Males have the ruby colored throats. I haven't seen any males but one the whole time we've lived here...
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - DP - 08-30-2014
Speedy wrote:
[quote=space-time]
how do you know it is female?
Short proboscis.
Ha!
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - OWC Jamie - 08-30-2014
Nice.
You're not kidding on the patience.
I always have the wrong lens on when I'm even lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time.
Or shooting thru a filthy window lit by the sun. :-(
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - BernDog - 08-30-2014
http://youtu.be/A1F0e6e-b50
Re: Got lucky again with a female! - RAMd®d - 08-31-2014
Great shots!
I had no idea that only 1/600s would stop the wings.
I would have thought 1/1000s minimum would be needed.
Well done.
Great patience and good planning.