Black-Chinned Hummer

Gallery: AvianPosted May 19, 2011453 views16 comments

Hi all: It's been a while since I posted. Been a bit busy with other life activities. Anyway, here's a shot from this week in my back yard. I enjoy working with hummingbirds. I found this pose to be interesting.

Female Black Chinned
Multi Flash - 4 flashes (3 on the hummer, one on the background).

50D, 70-200 f/4 @ 187mm
Cropped to a pano

Larger version included.

Thx for looking and commenting.

Comments

16 comments

Comment posted by David Haynes on May 20, 2011 at 9:59 AM

Keith,
The wing, head and tail position is one of the best I've ever seen. And what a beautiful, creamy, watercolor like backdrop. The lone flower puts this image completely over the top for me. Love what you've done to the composition making it like a pano. Looks like you had pretty good light for this image Keith. Nice and sharp with good feather detail. I really love this image. Congrats.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on May 20, 2011 at 10:36 AM

Very nice! I like the detail, color, and composition. Can't think of anything to improve on this photo. thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Bryan Hix on May 20, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Love all of it Keith, especially the pano crop works really well.

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Comment posted by John Blumenkamp on May 20, 2011 at 2:50 PM

Fantastic Keith!!

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Comment posted by Luca Mussato on May 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM

What to say? simply beautiful

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 20, 2011 at 4:04 PM

Keith i like everything about this image it's super.

Keith.

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Comment posted by Clayton Musgrove on May 20, 2011 at 4:16 PM

I always enjoy your hummingbird shots Keith. Another inspirational image here.

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Comment posted by Ron Bielefeld on May 20, 2011 at 4:36 PM

Very nice Keith. Looks very natural. Multi-flash set-ups often times look very fake to me. This does not. Well done.

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Comment posted by Soubhik Patranabis on May 20, 2011 at 4:53 PM

Wow ! great shot !

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on May 20, 2011 at 8:15 PM

Nice job Keith, the pose from the bird makes it for me.

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Comment posted by Ron Dudley on May 20, 2011 at 8:22 PM

Keith, I especially like the wing position and your composition on this one.

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Comment posted by Steve Canuel on May 20, 2011 at 9:02 PM

Nicely composed.

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Comment posted by S Govindarajan on May 20, 2011 at 11:53 PM

Super wing position and bakground, Keith. Like the pano comp. The larger version simply shines.

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 21, 2011 at 9:56 AM

Beautifully captured Keith.
May

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on May 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM

This looks excellent Keith, both flower and bird R tack sharp. The 1:2 comp works well, great BG colors that add nicely..I still need to buy some secondary slaves for this technique, still pluggin' along with my single 580 EX.
Well done

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Comment posted by Neal Cooper on May 22, 2011 at 3:52 AM

Keith. I love the composition and uncluttered BG. The image is sharp a and well captured. And I was thinking of getting rid of the 50D

Well done.

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