A hummingbird’s brilliant throat feathers are called its “gorget” (pronounced gor-jit). The term comes from days of old, when a knight-in-armor wore a metallic collar—or gorget—to protect his throat. The hummingbird’s intense glint is the result of iridescence, rather than colored pigments. The bird’s throat feathers contain minutely thin, film-like layers of “platelets,” set like tiles in a mosaic against a darker background. Light waves reflect and refract off the mosaic, creating color in the manner of sun glinting off oily film on water.
OM-1MarkIIOM 150-400mm F4.5 TC lens500mmf/5.61/2000s6400 ISO0.0 EV
It ran from 7 am to 1 pm, drive home by 1:45 pm, shot with four OM-1.2 cameras, four lenses, a PL9, OM20, Sigma56, and Canon EF 135 f2 on a Metabones T v2 adapter, 8200 raw files downloaded, culled in Photo Mechanic to 155 frames, renamed, edited in ACR, denoised, exported to jpg, uploaded to our SmugMug account, posted at 4:59 pm.
petersm59 wrote:
I photographed a commencement today.
It ran from 7 am to 1 pm, drive home by 1:45 pm, shot with four OM-1.2 cameras, four lenses, a PL9, OM20, Sigma56, and Canon EF 135 f2 on a Metabones T v2 adapter, 8200 raw files downloaded, culled in Photo Mechanic to 155 frames, renamed, edited in ACR, denoised, exported to jpg, uploaded to our SmugMug account, posted at 4:59 pm.
I'm still loving what I do, and I still care enough to work my butt off when I shoot. Even at 66, I can still grind it out and get it done. I don't take any of it for granted.
