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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: telyt on May 21, 2014, 10:23:29 am

Title: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: telyt on May 21, 2014, 10:23:29 am
A Black-chinned Hummingbird in my yard yesterday evening:

(http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/archilochus/bchumm10.jpg)
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: Kerry L on May 21, 2014, 09:09:09 pm
Breathtaking! Very nice.
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: John McDermott on May 21, 2014, 10:49:08 pm
Where is your backyard?
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: Chris_Brown on May 21, 2014, 10:51:42 pm
Quote from: John McDermott on May 21, 2014, 10:49:08 pm
Where is your backyard?

Behind his house.  :D
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: telyt on May 22, 2014, 12:34:21 am
Quote from: Chris_Brown on May 21, 2014, 10:51:42 pm
Behind his house.  :D

:D  eastern Sacramento County California
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 22, 2014, 04:25:45 am
amazing.
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: Bob_B on May 22, 2014, 09:03:33 am
+1. (I used to live in La Jolla, and miss California and it's wide assortment of hummers.)
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: Kevin Gallagher on May 22, 2014, 09:55:01 am
 Great catch Doug, what was your setup?
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: telyt on May 22, 2014, 10:22:18 am
Quote from: Kevin Gallagher on May 22, 2014, 09:55:01 am
Great catch Doug, what was your setup?

The camera is a Leica R8 with DMR digital back and plain matte viewscreen, lens is the 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R.  I also used an old beat-up Gitzo tripod and a folding camp chair  :)

I've kept the hummingbird feeders full for several weeks so there are always a few hummingbirds around; sometimes as many as a half-dozen.  For this photo I moved the feeder into evening sunlight.  One hummingbird (an adult male Anna's Hummingbird) has claimed the feeder as his own which keeps him quite busy chasing other hummingbirds away.  When one of the other hummingbirds comes to feed it's always on the alert for the dominant Anna's so I wait for the moments when it backs away from the feeder to watch for incoming missiles.
Title: Re: Black-chinned Hummingbird
Post by: ned on May 22, 2014, 09:32:34 pm
It's a beautiful image.