Dirty Pete is just about the easiest hummingbird I've ever worked with.
This morning:
After lunch (uh, my lunch that is):
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Evening:
*** - Since posting these pics, I have been asked (by a member of the POTN community via PM) if my hummingbird images are composites. The answer is no. Not only are they not composites, I do very little PP work to the images (RAW = sharpness of 3, standard pic style, usually contrast of +1 and adjust exposure to taste PP = clone dust spots, clone out second catchlight if present, and minor dodging and burning. Beyond what I do in RAW, there is no sharpening. And that's it. I go through great pains to do everything right in camera and spend hours shooting everyday for months every season for the last decade. the person who asked the question did not state why they thought my images were composites.
Miss Julia Grey (she/her/Miss)
). I used to do an official close up of each hummingbird, but that stopped in 2012. I guess the reason is that 2012 is the year I finally started creating the images I had in mind when I started photographing hummingbirds in '05. My goal in capturing images of hummingbirds has always been to emulate the stylized illustrations of them from the 20th century. So now, the size of the bird within the frame is dependent mostly on the size of the plant/flower on which he's feeding.
