Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Super series Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:30 AM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > I'm taking a break from the blood and gore of Tanzania. My neighbour > stopped me in the grocery store the other day to tell me that he had found > a hummingbird nest in his garden. > Would I like to come by and photograph it? Of course, I said, and I have > been over to his place three times to try and capture the action. I stand > on top of his compost pile and > this brings me almost to eye level with the nest. I use the D800E with a > 1.7X extender on the old 300 f4.0 AFS. At first I used a monopod, and the > last time, this morning, I used > a tripod to concentrate on the action around the nest. Here are a series > of photos outlining the feeding cycle. > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hummers2014/FeedPrep.jpg.html > > > > Please shift to the right to see the rest of the series. Mama fed the two > babies three times in the hour I was there - one babe is more aggressive > than the other - and he (she?) > gets more food than the quiet number two. Papa has already gone North, it > seems, to go fishing and play in the Alaskan casinos - so Mama has a lot of > work to do. > > The nest is located in a dark spot - most shots are at ISO 6400 f11 or f13 > and shutter speeds in the 1/400 - 1/500 range. All the photos are cropped > except the last one of Mama > flying away for another food foraging trip. > > Please look large. C&C always welcome. > > Howard (back in Hummingbird land) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >