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02-02-2011, 12:23 AM
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Booted Racket-Tail Hummingbird (Ochreatus underwoodii) - Mindo, Ecuador
Sheila and I visited northern Ecuador six years ago with a birding group my parents belonged to. We saw this species a number of times, but I never got a shot that I liked. I thought about it off an on since the last visit. On this trip, I had been in Mindo for less than an hour when I got this shot:
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02-02-2011, 12:33 AM
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Holy Cow that's a fantastic picture!!
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02-02-2011, 12:34 AM
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Holy Cow that's a fantastic picture!!
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Thanks, Joann! He was very cooperative. Of course, the trick to hummingbirds is to take lots and lots and lots and lots of pictures and then get rid of most of them! |
02-02-2011, 10:24 AM
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What an awesome pic!! I don't see the slightest amount of blur in the wings, which is pretty amazing considering how fast these birds beat their wings. I can imagine that you needed to take lots of shots to get this amazing photo.
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02-02-2011, 11:10 AM
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What a beautiful picture! I love it!
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02-02-2011, 10:18 PM
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Another great shot. Did you do that with a flash?
I've noticed that using flash to shoot hummers gives the green feathers a yellowish reflection. I think it may be similar optically to "red eye" in photos of people.
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02-03-2011, 05:14 PM
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Another great shot. Did you do that with a flash?
I've noticed that using flash to shoot hummers gives the green feathers a yellowish reflection. I think it may be similar optically to "red eye" in photos of people.
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I've noticed it as well. I like using a flash for hummers in flight though. The other cool thing with flash is that it sometimes brings up the irridescence of the feathers that can be lost in a shadow. |
02-03-2011, 06:59 PM
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Wow! amazing photo! thanks for sharing!
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02-03-2011, 07:46 PM
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Thank you for looking!
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02-04-2011, 12:07 PM
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Wow!!! Way cool. When using flash you can freeze the action. Its totally cool. Are the colours true? Well I guess with iridescence the colours are always true, just depends on the lighting.
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