Black-Chinned Male

Gallery: AvianPosted May 30, 2011405 views12 comments

Greetings everyone:

I was out in the backyard this morning working on more hummingbird shots. This is a male Black-Chinned hummer. I was pleased with the with position, detail and the pollen on the beak was a added bonus. Very small crop.

Multi-flash, 3 on the hummer, one on the background.

Canon 50D, 100-400 @ 300mm

Larger version included for a more detailed view.

Thanks for your thoughts.

Comments

12 comments

Comment posted by Ray Whitt on May 30, 2011 at 3:27 PM

Beautiful shot, I like the wing position also, great work,

Ray

Registered on May 27, 2011, 92 Posts, 2619 Comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 30, 2011 at 4:19 PM

Hi keith theres certainly a great lot of detail in both images,superb.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Bruce King on May 30, 2011 at 5:15 PM

Oh sweet! Definitely something to aspire to.

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Comment posted by John Robinson on May 30, 2011 at 6:07 PM

Absolutely the bees whathamacallits.

One of the best I,ve seen on the avian forum on my short time on here.
Superb. (All I,ve got are Sparrows !!)
Great stuff indeed.
JohnR

Registered on March 2, 2008, 535 Posts, 2453 Comments

Comment posted by Randy Bacon on May 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM

keith, I've seen very few hummer images on this forum that inspire me - this one does. Beautiful capture in a gorgeous setting, well done.

Registered on November 24, 2008, 56 Posts, 492 Comments

Comment posted by Roger Leekam on May 30, 2011 at 9:05 PM

A brilliant shot Keith - superb detail, color, background. The flowers also magnificent, so much a part of hummingbird shots. I hope to one day get a shot like this.

Registered on May 28, 2009, 83 Posts, 646 Comments

Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on May 30, 2011 at 10:29 PM

Classic shot, brilliantly executed. Very impressive Keith :^)

Be interested to know what you're shutter speed was ;^)

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on May 31, 2011 at 8:49 AM

Be interested to know what you're shutter speed was ;^)

The actual shutter speed was 1/200. That really doesn't matter much in this shot as the entire lighting for the image was with the flashes. If the flashes were off, this would have been a black frame. The challenge is getting the lighting right so that it does not look like a flash image. The flash duration with the way I had my flashes configured was about 1/15000. Hope that helps.

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Comment posted by Dan Walters on May 31, 2011 at 11:10 AM

Very sharp and the flowers add a nice splash of color.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM

That's really sweet Keith, perfect composition with the diagonals of flower and bird.

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Comment posted by Joe Vincent on June 1, 2011 at 5:56 AM

Very nice work Keith!

Registered on August 16, 2005, 69 Posts, 792 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on June 1, 2011 at 5:47 PM

Interesting to read your response on shutter speed. This is one of the first images I have seen where use of the flash is not really evident on the image itself, so well done in that regard, excellent use of reflectors and flash. Wonderful overall scene with flower placement, hummers are so cool, very well done Keith.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments