Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Black-chinned Hummingbird
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 21:24:28 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Gene Duprey wrote:

>>>
Very nice pair of hummingbird photos.  Like the first for the wing motion, 
and the second for its overall clarity of the bird and its markings.  Nicely 
done.
<<<

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
>
>http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/bchumm00.html
>

Thanks Gene.  I tried for more hummingbird photos later in the day, this 
time with fill flash.  The adult male Black-chinned is still elusive (he's a 
GORGEOUS bird in the feather) so the photos are still all immature/female 
plumage.  Here's one of the fill flash attempts:

http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/bchumm02.html

It seems that in hovering flight the hummingbird can keep its head perfectly 
still (it's very sharp in the full-sized photo) but everything else is 
vibrating at about 50-60 Hz and if there's enough ambient light it shows :(

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com