My birding activities are basically on hold for the time being since I am nursing a rotator cuff injury. But that gives me some time to go over images that were taken in the past, like this set from Ecuador in 2022.
The location is not a feeding station but at an area of lush purple flower shrubs. These small hummingbirds are fast and move around quite a bit and the bushy surrounding makes it not easy to get clear shots. When agitated, for example in the presence of a competitor, the males raise their face feathers and at a certain angle, the feathers turn bright and intense green.
The depth-of-field wasn’t enough to get both of them in focus shown in #5. So, I shifted to focus point from one to the other and focus-stacked them afterwards in PP. After that, they both hovered away, facing each other for a while as depicted in #5, which is not focus-stacked.
Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave any feedback,
Joshua
My birding activities are basically on hold for the time being since I am nursing a rotator cuff injury. But that gives me some time to go over images that were taken in the past, like this set from Ecuador in 2022.
The location is not a feeding station but at an area of lush purple flower shrubs. These small hummingbirds are fast and move around quite a bit and the bushy surrounding makes it not easy to get clear shots. When agitated, for example in the presence of a competitor, the males raise their face feathers and at a certain angle, the feathers turn bright and intense green.
The depth-of-field wasn’t enough to get both of them in focus shown in #5. So, I shifted to focus point from one to the other and focus-stacked them afterwards in PP. After that, they both hovered away, facing each other for a while as depicted in #5, which is not focus-stacked.
Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave any feedback,
Joshua
Jul 22, 2023 at 12:26 PM
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