Rufous Hummingbird

A female from the same session as the last two posts. The males are so fancy and stay such a short time that it's hard not to let them monopolize ones electrons, but I still like the ladies. Certainly not a natural perch this time, but it does lend a nice sense of scale. This is a standard 8 inch zip tie from the hardware store.

7D, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu gimbal on RRS legs, f5.6, 1/160, iso 400, Av mode, no exposure compensation. Processed in LR5 & CS6. Cropped to 6.7 MP of the original 18. The hummingbird was too far out on the zip tie to keep the edge of the branch, which I wanted to anchor the perch, and still get a decent composition, so I copied the right side of the image from just left of the tail and slid it back to shorten the tie, then cleaned up the splice zone and zip tie a bit. Taken Saturday, March 22nd at 5:41 pm.

Your comments and criticisms are most welcome.

Thanks for looking,