{"id":140516,"date":"2023-08-04T05:50:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=140516"},"modified":"2023-08-04T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T12:51:37","slug":"one-winged-hummingbird-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/04\/one-winged-hummingbird-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"One-winged Hummingbird In Flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another disappearing wing, but for a different reason.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I posted a photo of a hummingbird whose whirring wings seemed to have disappeared due to a slow shutter speed and resulting extreme motion blur. Today we have another disappearing wing, this time caused by something else.<\/p>\n

Yes I know, I’ve been posting a lot of hummingbird photos lately and today I’m posting more of them, for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Monsoon season has hit us with a vengeance, so due to clouds and poor light it’s been a week since I’ve photographed anything but the hummers at my trumpet vine.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m always intrigued when I see weird, wonky, seemingly unexplainable results in my photos so I like to share them. And try to explain why I got them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 2500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

    Last week I photographed this Black-chinned Hummingbird (a juvenile male I believe) in flight near my trumpet vine. It isn’t a photo I’d normally post to my blog but I’m including it here to provide some perspective and context for the photo below, which was taken in a burst less than 1\/10th of a second before this one.<\/p>\n

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    1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 2500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

    Where’s his left wing?<\/p>\n

    It seems to have disappeared and it certainly wasn’t caused by extreme motion blur with a shutter speed of 1\/1250, as evidenced by his reasonably sharp and very evident right wing. When I first saw this photo it threw my tiny brain for a loop but then I figured it out. Can you?<\/p>\n

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    His left wing is there but it’s pointed almost directly at the viewer so we’re seeing it edge-on, which makes it seem to disappear amongst the similarly colored feathers of his upper back and flank. The fact that it’s slightly soft facilitated its disappearing act.<\/p>\n

    Once I saw it my brain understood and all was right in my little world again. Before that I was thoroughly confused.<\/p>\n

    Ron<\/p>\n

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    Another disappearing wing, but for a different reason. (3 photos)<\/p>\n

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