Ricardo
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I do feel the space in front leaves more breathing room for the inflight image. -
My goal is to showcase the bird and its beauty, specially the colors. But for this shot I wanted to capture a unique behavior since she was standing still on a branch for a while. So I just waited for a few minutes until she reached for the seed on the tree and got ready with the camera. The hardest part is to crop the image since I like to show all the environment. I like seeing the forms of the leaves and how that form plays with the forms of the bird as well.
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I did learn that if I wanted to get close and capture a good image, I had to let them get use to me, since every time I tried to get close, they would immediately walk away slowly away from me. I knew they would get comfortable at some point since they stopped moving away and started feeding right away. In this image they are still watching me but it was a few minutes after, that they relaxed and started feeding. I had done this game of cat a mouse more than 4 times at this point. I had to settle for a landscape picture instead of a close up. My only zoom lens is a 300 mm with a teleconverter of 1.4 because it is very easy to carry on my trips.
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Got lucky when I had a wide aperture of F/5.6 mostly because of very weak light since there was a lot of fog passing by but created a very colorful background to my composition. I was trying to get a frontal shot of his colors on his crest.
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Worked with the rule of thirds and created more breathing space to make more contrast with the colors of the bird and the dark background.
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Birders alert me that this Sword Billed hummingbird would feed from the flowers you see in white on the background so I was able to positioned my self to get a good angle to capture the image. I rely on locals for the best sightings most of the time and it usually has provided me great opportunities for some great images.
I do feel the space in front leaves more breathing room for the inflight image. 
I did learn that if I wanted to get close and capture a good image, I had to let them get use to me, since every time I tried to get close, they would immediately walk away slowly away from me. I knew they would get comfortable at some point since they stopped moving away and started feeding right away. In this image they are still watching me but it was a few minutes after, that they relaxed and started feeding. I had done this game of cat a mouse more than 4 times at this point. I had to settle for a landscape picture instead of a close up. My only zoom lens is a 300 mm with a teleconverter of 1.4 because it is very easy to carry on my trips. 
Got lucky when I had a wide aperture of F/5.6 mostly because of very weak light since there was a lot of fog passing by but created a very colorful background to my composition. I was trying to get a frontal shot of his colors on his crest. 
Worked with the rule of thirds and created more breathing space to make more contrast with the colors of the bird and the dark background. 
Birders alert me that this Sword Billed hummingbird would feed from the flowers you see in white on the background so I was able to positioned my self to get a good angle to capture the image. I rely on locals for the best sightings most of the time and it usually has provided me great opportunities for some great images. Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)