4/24/05
What can I say, everybody loves hummingbirds. I sure do. Hard to photograph
though. So fast, and there's that flying backwards thing they can do. I always
have a few in my backyard that I manage to capture on 'film' (I only do digital
these days) and some of them can be seen on the links below. I don't have any
fancy strobe equipment that I can set up at a known feeding place and with
motion sensor stuff to trigger the strobe and camera. That's how they get those
pictures that freeze the wings. With natural light and my hands to hold the
camera, I have to use a wide aperture to get the fastest possible shutter speed,
but then I get the smallest depth of field, so the wings would be somewhat out
of focus even if I did get a 1/400 or faster shutter speed. I just go for the
eyes and composition best I can.
Most of my photographs have come from outdoors. I have a few that were taken at the San Diego Zoo in their butterfly and hummingbird house. My favorite one was at the old Fresnel lens for the Piedras Blancas lighthouse which is in a little memorial park along Main Street in Cambria, Ca. The photo above was taken at the San Francisco Zoo last weekend. I believe it is an Anna's Hummingbird from looking in my ID books and on the Internet.
Here's an informative and interesting
article on California hummingbirds:
Why
Do Our Hummingbirds Hum
And here's some of my
photos:
( I think most of them are Anna's )
|Hummer 1|
Hummer 2|
Hummer 3|
Hummer 4|
|Hummer 5|
Hummer 6|
Hummer 7|
Hummer 8|
|Hummer 9|
Hummer 10|
Hummer 11|
Hummer 12|
|Hummer 13|
Hummer 14|
Hummer 15|
Hummer 16|
|Hummer 17|
Hummer 18|
Hummer 19|
Hummer 20|
Hummer 21|