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My Black & Blue Salvia is finally blooming and attracting our local resident Hummingbird. I wish we had more variety of Hummers in our garden, but I guess ...
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My Black & Blue Salvia is finally blooming and attracting our local resident Hummingbird. I wish we had more variety of Hummers in our garden, but I guess this female is keeping them away.
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People's Choice in Something beautiful from your window Photo Challenge
People's Choice in HUMMINGBIRDS Photo Challenge
Winner in Indoor outdoor wildlife photos Photo Challenge
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Shutterbug_14
September 05, 2017
Amazing capture! It's especially stunning since the humming bird is in perfect focus!
blunder
September 05, 2017
Thanks very much, but I wouldn't have got it without the great advice from laurenkaymyers.
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Aukland
March 21, 2018
Wow, stunning!! Perfect focus and beautiful background colors. Best hummingbird capture i have seen so far!!
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JayneBug
October 06, 2019
Talk about timing! Wonderful image and capture. Congratulations on your People's Choice award.
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KristinaOers
October 12, 2019
Thank you for joining my beautiful blue blooms challenge :-) Good luck!
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Location
The photo was taken from the sun room at my house, with the blinds closed and just my lens poking out of the doorway between the blinds, because this little humming bird was easily spooked.Time
After waiting most of the day and after a few hundred tries, this shot was taken on August 14th, 2017 at 3:24 pm.Lighting
The lighting was natural afternoon sunlight, and I had set up so the sun was behind me to take the fullest advantage of available light. The background blurred nicely with a golden glow from the setting sun.Equipment
This image was shot with a Nikon D750 and a Sigma 150-500 mm lens on a tripod shot at 500mm, 1/800, f10.Inspiration
I had seen the beautiful shots of hummingbirds that laurenkaymyers had taken and she was kind enough to give me some tips on how she got them. This inspired me to go out and buy a Black & Blue Salvia and set it up in my backyard.Editing
In this shot all I had to do was crop, adjust the colour balance, brightness/contrast and add a little sharpening.In my camera bag
In the days of film I shot with a Canon. When I went digital a chose Nikon and I'm glad I did, Not to cast aspersions on Canon, it's a great brand, but Nikon "feels" right to me. I have a Nikon D750 with a Nikon 24-120 1.4, a Nikon 70-300 5.6 a Sigma 150-500 5-6.3, a 1.4 teleconverter, various filters and a Nikon D60 as backup. I have two tripods, one light, for hiking and a heavier one for closer expeditions. (Anybody want to buy a used film Canon camera)Feedback
I usually go looking for shots, hiking into the backcountry or cruising the shoreline but this shot was set up more like a studio shot. On the advice of Laurenkaymyers I went and bought a Black & Blue Salvia, watered and fed it until it was mature then set it up close to our hummingbird feeder and waited and waited and waited …. , until our local hummingbird found it. Finally after 300 or 400 shots I got one I liked. Moral - perseverance and patience will eventually get you your shot.
