I'm stuck inside for another day--I'm going stir crazy. Rain everywhere and no end in sight.
I decided to capture a hummingbird again--I have no clue what this hummingbird is, but if my research tells me correctly, it is a broad-tailed hummer (a female is my guess)--the signatures are the green back, tan on sides and the perfect white tips on the tail.
Its back is stunning when just a very small bit of light hits it (and believe me, there is barely any light at all). I'm using very high ISO's. I'm inside. I'm keeping the shutterspeed as high as possible. The good news is that against the dark light (and my hill outdoors), the bird appears so incredibly magical. I've cropped this shot--then I used the angle tool to show how much it appears like a diver doing a perfectly streamlined trick mid-air. You can tell it is raining because there is one perfect rain drop on its beak.
Wow Daryl - this is amazing! The fact that you cropped it this close and still have so much detail AND that you used a high ISO and I don't detect any noise. I'm highly impressed with your skills. Fav for shot and talent!
poor you Daryl I know how you feel when its rained all day in the uk apart from getting the Shopping you feel you can not do much hope it brightens up soon
@gerry Thanks Gerry. It's very unlike our weather to go this long so rainy! I should be doing the mountains of laundry or something productive, though. :)
another great hummingbird shot. I didn't even realise there were lots of different types, I thought a hummingbird was the type of bird...I love this little guy with his teeny tail
@jodimuli Are you in FL? It's so humid here that when I go outside my glasses fog up and I cannot take a proper shot; last night at the party I went to, I was taking shots of a band and just using auto focus because my glasses fogged up and the lens did--had to give up pretty quickly--and it's just gross everywhere! I want sun dagnabit! :) But thanks for the lovely comment too Jodi. :)
@spair Aw, thanks for the fav Susan. It is not easy--I have to take so many shots, but when one allows me some wiggle room, the processing can help with the noise the high ISO creates.
Very cute...the iridescent colors on the back always reminds me of mermaids. I hope that the sun shines soon so you could shoot with sunlight one of these days!
@4bellaarte That's very sweet of you--not an expert at all! You should check out @vskolnik to see an expert in catching hummingbirds. My jaws open all the time when I'm looking at her shots. Just stunning! :)
@vskolnik I love the colors and how the light hits and they radiate! I will probably be so overjoyed when I get one with actual sun on it! (And can throw up the shutterspeed more!).
He looks like he is doing a "tail dance." Very very nice! The rain is just amazing at this point. We will ALL remember this as the "summer of the endless rain."
@grammyn@darylo Yeah, I am not too freaked out about the rain just yet. I have managed to get in some outdoor phtography, and also just tried to embrace the rain drops/dew drops, etc.. today, Dan drove us to lunch and then to Tiger Direct electronics. The rain had started. It was pooling up and making trails that rain horizontally back across my window as we drove...I held up my iphone and tried to get a shot of it. Hee hee Just doing anything I can to get some pics/have some fun!
Gorgeous capture Daryl, you really make it seem so easy and we all know it's not easy at all :) I love the blur in those flapping wings, and everything else so sharp! Nice comp and colors too!
@squamloon I went back to my Lightroom program to see the "history" of my editing. First, it was already a dark day (raining in fact) and I was indoors. Where my feeder is, there is a hill behind it and the darkness is most likely a pocket of that hill (as the photo is cropped, it did not have any green like some of my other shots had from different angles). So the crop and background helped. I did use clarity to it's fullest most likely and then used something called "Vignette" to increase the darkness around the subject. Threw up the luminance some on the green. It does look like I used contrast too. Basically, if there was a button to push or slide, I used it in LR5. :)
I did use a high ISO, fast shutter, and low number aperture (wider)
August 22nd, 2013
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Beautiful capture!
I did use a high ISO, fast shutter, and low number aperture (wider)