Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/07/20

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Subject: [Leica] Rufous braking
From: vick.ko at sympatico.ca (Vick Ko)
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:20:40 -0400
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Wow, that is breathtaking.

f11 at essentially 600mm?  I like what it does to the background.

Vick

On 20/07/2013 5:14 PM, H&E Cummer wrote:
> Hi Luggers,
> So far today - and it is just after 2 pm - I have taken 93 hummingbird 
> photos.
> I like this one the best. It shows a female Rufous (at least I think it is 
> a Rufous) Doug?
> braking into a fuchsia. I like the brake position of the wings and that's 
> why I chose it.
>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/PenderBirds/Rufous45degRtw.jpg.html>
>
> http://tinyurl.com/k2e2wy9
>
> I cropped it to about 1/5 the image to highlight the 45 degree angle of 
> the bird in the frame.
> Taken, of course, with the D800E and the 300 f4.0 + 2 X extender on a 
> tripod and developed in CS6
> with some sharpening and noise reduction, ISO 6400, f11.0 1/2000.
>
> Please look large, C&C always welcome,
>
> Howard.
>
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