Great shot, David. I'd say you knocked that one out of the park. Good for
you to have the camera handy and ready to go.
Charlie
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:51 PM, David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I took 3 minutes from tiling my bathroom floor, to check my email. (I
> needed to get off my knees!)
>
> As I did, this little humming bird appeared at the flowers, just outside
> my very dirty office window. I think it's a female Rufous Hummingbird, but
> I'll leave that to the experts.
>
> Luckily, I had the 50~200 2.8-3.5 + 1.4x on the camera (a 560mm eFL). I
> was shooting against the light, at at distance of, say, 6.5 feet (2 meters).
>
> Other than cropping the 4:3 frame to 3:2, to eliminate some excess
> foliage, this is a full width shot.
>
> Considering the window has not been cleaned in a year (talk about a dirty
> filter!), I thought it not too bad...
>
> http://www.furnfeather.net/Look/Hummer.html
>
> Comments & Critique welcomed, as always.
>
> David.
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