Ruby

Let me know what you think. As with all of my hummer pics, this is

the original background.

Just an Amazing shot. Wow!

 

John

 

Una preciosidad de foto , saludos

Subject combination, play o colour launch this photograph into top nocthc category for me personally. Real cool!

 

 

Perfect shot. The eye is in focus: INCREDIBLE!!! Please explain us the technique.

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Fantastic shot. I am amazed that you even caught a little of brilliant chin color. Very well done.

Marvellous photo!

The red feathers on the hummingbird's neck going towards the red hibiscus, the green tones on the background, the bird and the plant make an awesome composition!

 

Congratulations!

Scott, I like this one. The BG is nice and clean and the bird is nice and sharp. Compositionally though, I think I'd prefer to see a bit more space between the bird and the flower.

 

Nit-picking aside, your recent hummer shots demonstrate that your bird photography is still improving. This is great to see. When I compare my recent bird shots with ones I took a couple of years ago, I can see slight improvements. When I look at yours however, I see a much greater rate of improvement.

 

Did you nuke this one with flash? It looks like it is naturally lit from the right, but the degree of wing-freeze suggests that it is flashed.

Thanks, Jon. I appreciate that. I did use two flashes from the front and there was also some strong sunlight from the right. I think there was way too much ambient light for the flashes to have much effect in stopping the wing beat, though. It was shot at 1/1000 sec. Sometimes that's enough and sometimes it's not even close to stopping the beat. It all depends on the position of the wings and how excited they are. Usually if the wings are all the way up or all of the way forward it's much easier to stop the beat, but it looks like they're halfway here, so she must've been relaxed. She's the only one left in my backyard, so she doesn't have any worries of constantly having to watch her back and fight for the feeder that's about a foot away.

Very, very good!!!

Ok. I just learned after reading about ruby-throats that this is a juvenile male. I called him a her in several of my posts. I'm kind of surprised no one corrected me.

It is definitely a male. Females never have the bright feathers under their chin no matter what type of hummer. The males are the pretty ones. This is typical of bird species. We have at least thirty or fourty hummers at our feeders at one time. You have a lot of patience to capture them in interesting poses. Regards: Jeri

Obviously if this was an adult he would have a whole neck full of red instead of just a spot. What threw me off the most was the white on the tips of the tail feathers seen here. I always thought only females had white on their tail feathers. Before I learned juvenile males also had white on their tail feathers, I came to the conclusion that this was just a female with a little more than normal amount of testosterone in her system.

Yes, I guess the boys must grow up to display their full beauty. It is fun to watch the changes in the young hummers to see what their true colors will be.

Keep shooting and sharing. Jeri