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Pretty3Horses
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 18:39
Here's my first real try at bird photos, and I had a wonderful, cooperative subject, a friendly hummingbird that landed near my porch. (though in reality I think he was ready to fight me if I came too close to his hummingbird water, lol!) He let me get within 5 feet of him, and posed for me :lol: I put my S2 button sound effects on the bird sound, which he literally listened to with curiousity, lol I have been working with different apertures and shutter speeds in Manuel, so I'm very new to this. Let me know what yall think. :) By the way, I did enchance a bit on Photoshop, just added some contrast and saturation since it was pretty dull and cloudy outside.


Listening to me:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/hum1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/hum2.jpg



http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/hjumm3.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/Hummingbird-029.jpg

These were taken about 5 ft away, all I did to these photos was sharpen and resize.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/hum28282.jpg


http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y218/GypsyMagic/Canon%20S2%20IS%20Photos/hum383838383.jpg

Thanks for looking!
kawwauser
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 18:54
well done, iv,e never seen a live humming bird but know how small they are, the one on the stick looks like he was dozing off, was this a young hummingbird?
RossW
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 19:17
Great shots, especially the last couple. How clever to entice him with the sounds of another bird! He looks like he was "styling" for the birdie in the camera. :-)
Pretty3Horses
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 19:27
I'm not sure, I don't know anything about wild birds really. I do know he is really territorial! He kept fighting off other hummingbirds from getting his stick :)
Pretty3Horses
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 19:29
Great shots, especially the last couple. How clever to entice him with the sounds of another bird! He looks like he was "styling" for the birdie in the camera. :-)

Hehe, I do think he noticed the sound, he kept cocking his head at me like in photo #1 everytime I'd hit a button.
Stefan A
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 21:54
Very nice. I get a lot of them near me. But they are always flying and they are pretty fast.

Stefan
dalejr33
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 22:37
Here's my encounter of the day as well.

http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/7137/img1126b7wp.th.jpg (http://img460.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1126b7wp.jpg)
cool_dude07
5th of July 2006 (Wed), 22:47
Nice DOF!

Ty
planty
7th of July 2006 (Fri), 14:26
awwe he or she is a cuteie. Nice job

My moms bird goes nuts over the bird chirp on the camera it cracks me up.
Aray_Of_Art
7th of July 2006 (Fri), 15:56
Those are GREAT!! Too cute! And a very good job...I think...in capturing him.
sonnyJ
7th of July 2006 (Fri), 18:27
as a very ameture birder I would offer the suggestion that all the hummers are "ruby-throated hummingbirds"

It is usually the only himmingbird on the east soast.

Pretty3horses is in Texas and Dale in Tenn so that pretty much limits options.

I suspect Dale caught a juvenile at sunrise or sunset to get the yellow color