birds Close Up

What do you think? J

Lovely shot!

Nice job on the hummer as usual. Her eye looks funny, some kind of weird reflection?

Hi, Janine. I really like this shot. The colors on the bird mix so well with the background. Backlighting gives the bird a neat glow. I'm curious how you took this shot. I own a Panasonic Lumix FZ8, which is a decent amateur enthusiast camera, but I was having a hard time keeping the hummer in focus while it was darting back and forth getting nectar. Most of my shots were at the feeder, but you managed to get the bird "in isolation." How did you keep focus on the bird? Did you manually set the focal distance and hope it stayed within range, or were you able to get an AF lock while it hovered? Thanks!

What I do is hold something the distance I think the hummingbird will be flying from me & focus on that first. J

I could never get enough of these.