Frozen In Flight
by Daniel Beard
Title
Frozen In Flight
Artist
Daniel Beard
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
In July and August here in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley our Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds are constantly on our feeders, fattening up for their Autumn flight south. It takes a very fast shutter to capture them clearly in flight but every so many shots an in-flight image really pops. This is one of those images, a crop of a larger image captured at moderate distance with my Canon R6 mirrorless with Canon EFS 70-200 zoom and Canon EF-to-R adapter. This shot was captured at 1/1000 sec shutter speed, ISO 800, at full zoom. In post-processing, I bumped up the exposure and cropped to a square format but otherwise had to do very little editing to produce this in-flight portrait.
Featured 10 times in:
- "Showcasing The South And Mid-Atlantic",
- "Macro Marvels",
- "Real Animal Photographs",
- "Real Beautiful Birds",
- "The Art Workshop",
- "Greatest Of All Time",
- "Animal Mania",
- "New FAA Uploads...",
- "Wild Birds Of The World",
- "USA Photographers Only".
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August 16th, 2023
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Comments (15)
April Cook
I love sitting on my porch and praying I don't get stabbed in the head by one! Beautiful image!
Daniel Beard replied:
Thanks April! Love watching them zipping here and there, and when they’re sparring they can and do come very very close at times…witness the couple of head-on shots in my gallery! ;)
Daniel Beard
Many thanks Dr. Debra for the features in "The Art Workshop" and "Greatest Of All Time"!
Daniel Beard
Thank you Doug for the features in "Macro Marvels", "Real Animal Photographs", and Real Beautiful Birds"!
Dawn Currie
Congratulations! This fine image of an identified wild bird is among the features for 8/19/2023! Thank you for sharing with the Wild Birds of the World - A Nature Photography Group. Please take a moment to add it to the August 2023 Features discussion for additional visibility.
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