Although my recent trip to Ecuador was all about birds but it was more about capturing colorful birds whether perched or moving at a fairly slow speed and not about BIF, like of owls, falcons, eagles, kites in-flight, etc. Well, hummingbirds do fly but they fly so fast and they are tiny. No matter how good the A9 and GM 600mm are, they cannot keep up with those tiny birds in-flight. Plus, no one can track their movement at fairly close distance since they are small; for sure I cannot. And then, the lighting conditions are low. Quite often, my ISO setting went all the way to ISO 12800 with the shutter speed of 1/250 sec. Forget about freezing BIF at 1/2,000 sec. However, hummers do hover when feeding and that’s the opportunity to capture them seemingly in flight .
To show the rich colors and details though, it is best to capture them while they perch, like the one below. It is amazing to see something this colorful in nature. Please note that I reduced the blue saturation a little to tone it down. I used my A7r IV some 95% of the time to get the most out of the details.
FYI, this is a cross-post with a different thread.
Looking at a Maple Tree in Autumn Color.
Tripod mounted A7r.and Leica M 90mm f2.5 Summarit lens.
ISO 200, probably f8, 1/640 second.
Exposure corrected +0.12 Stops.
October 1, 2015
Adirodack Mountain Club (ADK) not far from the ADK Loj (Lodge) at Heart Lake (Lake owned by the ADK) in the Adirondack Mountains, Lake Placid, NY.
On a morning walk.
We have no mountains and not much fall color, but lots of trees and other interesting foliage.
All pictures taken with A7rIII and FE 24-105.
I am jealous of all the color you guys get I live near Albuquerque, NM and I have to drive to find it, and since we had an early hard frost, color is gone. Around my home, I get brown for miles
So, I present this sub-par picture of my dog. Konica 50mm/1.4 at probably 1.8
I'm switching back to Capture 1 (tired of renting LR) and wow do I have lots of muscle memory to re-memorize.
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