Great in-flight shots Martin. Pretty hard to capture them in flight with good DOF without using flash.

Tony

Outstanding work here, you have some skill and it shows

Thank you very much msoo, Tony and Rob.

One thing I do different than a lot of Hummingbird shooters is that I will use handheld and autofocus a lot, this way you can get the shot when the bird is out of position in your setup and you get the interesting poses, lots of times they are just a twisted jumble of feathers that doesn't make a good picture but occasionlly you get a something interesting.

Here are couple with black backrounds, I prefer a lighted background but sometimes it still makes a nice shot.

Hi:

Fantastic. Did you use your 70-300 ED for these shots. WOW, and people question that lens. Your color and detail is absolutly incredible. Thanks for showing these.

Thanks Jeff, yes it was the 70-300ED. Its a good lens when used with in its limitations.

Martin

Martin: WOW, seems a bit inadequate. They are all excellent!!! I agree with Tim, # 2 has to be my favorite for the colors and the angle. It reminds me of a head on shot of the B-2, or SR-71, just comin' right atcha! Whew! Keep up the great work. Hope you get more like these this year!!! ...john

Geez...these are beautiful. #2 is awesome!

Truly amazing photos, best I ever seen.

Amazing what camera did you use?

I need one of those 70-300mm WOWWWWWW

Sure makes my picture look like the worst piece of crapo ever -

Thank you for the nice comments John, Charles, Canonjoe and
Arcftspotter.

CanonJoe: The camera was the D70. My Hummingbird pictures started out like that also, but were not as good, through the window with the 18-70 kit lens, didn't take long to figure out I needed a longer lens. But one thing I did was take lots of pictures of them and what that does is you learn there movements so you can start to predict what there going to do so can be ready when there in a good postion.

Martin

Aw man! These are truly divine!

Wow - stunning pictures. I also love shots 1 and 2 the most.

Wonderful series! Excellent result!

Some of the best hummingbird shots I've seen!!

Wow....just WOW!

Superb images of Humming brids.
I have enjoyed them.

Thanks for sharing
-Avaneendra

Thanks again for the great comments, now you have me all motivated to get out there and take some pictures and try some new things.

Martin

Edited by Mkamp on Apr 08, 2005 at 03:53 PM GMT

I am completly blown away! Dont know what to say i love all.BRAVO!

Awesome, photos. I have the same setup...really envious of your skill!!

these pictures are stunning! exemplary of what you can do with flash, nice subject matter too, Thanks for sharing these!