After seeing Joshua's CR Hummingbirds decided to give my 400 2.8 VI w/Metabones a try at the old feeder our front.
My conclusion:
I'm thinking those CR Hummingbirds must be slower or his 400 2.8 VII must be better lots better than my VI 400 2.8.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with skill or technique!!! (and to top it off mine were only 10-15 feet away and so tame they almost land on me when filling the feeder.
Seriously thats what is great about this thread. All the great photographers producing such outstanding images gives us all something to strive for.....
bowens wrote:
After seeing Joshua's CR Hummingbirds decided to give my 400 2.8 VI w/Metabones a try at the old feeder our front.
My conclusion:
I'm thinking those CR Hummingbirds must be slower or his 400 2.8 VII must be better lots better than my VI 400 2.8.
I'm sure it has nothing to do with skill or technique!!! (and to top it off mine were only 10-15 feet away and so tame they almost land on me when filling the feeder.
Seriously thats what is great about this thread. All the great photographers producing such outstanding images gives us all something to strive for.....
Butch, I am not a hummingbird expert and I learned the trick there. I would suggest a few things to get the most out of your images. Get a darker background, preferably some green foliage and place the feeder as far away possible from the background to throw it out of focus. Again, focus on the flower stalk, eh, feeder and wait until the hummingbird is in focus but not too close to the feeder as you can crop it out. BTW, I posted only keepers, of course, I have tons of OOF images, not well composed images, etc. So, take a lot of pictures and practice before you go to CR. Yes, the hummers in CR are more colorful and they are more frequent than here, at least where I live. I am not sure about where you live though.
Photo taken the evening of June 20, 2016, at 7:48 PM (48 minutes before sunset).
Looking at farmers fields
Tripod mounted A7r and Leica R 50mm f2 Summicron lens
ISO 100, f11, 1/40 second
Exposure corrected by +0.60 Stops; processed in LR6
June 20, 2016,
Along Loch Valley Road, New Tripoli, PA
(and to top it off mine were only 10-15 feet away and so tame they almost land on me when filling the feeder. 
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