{"id":51212,"date":"2017-08-30T05:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T11:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=51212"},"modified":"2017-08-30T06:14:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:14:43","slug":"black-chinned-hummingbird-its-often-the-little-things-that-make-an-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/black-chinned-hummingbird-its-often-the-little-things-that-make-an-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Black-chinned Hummingbird &#8211; It&#8217;s Often The &#8220;Little Things&#8221; That Make An Image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And\u00a0in\u00a0this case those little things include &#8220;pixie dust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"51213\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/black-chinned-hummingbird-its-often-the-little-things-that-make-an-image\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1503046334&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"black-chinned hummingbird 1765 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-51213 size-full\" title=\"black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, natural light,\u00a0not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I photographed this juvenile Black-chinned Hummingbird twelve days ago as it was feeding on the nectar of\u00a0wild Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. I have flashier images of more colorful hummers (Rufous Hummingbirds for example)\u00a0doing the same thing but for me this one stands out for a variety of subtle reasons including the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Both subjects, bird and flower, are sharp in their entirety. The hummer is sharp from stem to stern including those incredibly\u00a0fast-moving wings. And despite its depth and all those stamens and petals splaying out in every direction the entire\u00a0flower cluster is sharp too (or close to it). I&#8217;ve found it challenging just to get most of the bird sharp in these situations but this time it was broadside to me so I had plenty of depth of field and my fast shutter speed froze the wings. It was a bonus to get\u00a0all of the\u00a0flower reasonably\u00a0sharp.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The flower is in\u00a0good condition and very attractive. Many flowers on the same plant are at different stages of development\u00a0&#8211; some not open yet and others way past their prime.\u00a0Thankfully this bird chose a beautiful specimen to extract nectar from. Many photographers use a perfect cut flower as part of\u00a0a setup for hummingbirds but to me that seems more like studio photography than\u00a0nature photography\u00a0and I refuse to do it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>I love the dusting of pollen on the left wing. For me little things like that\u00a0provide a dose\u00a0of reality and give good nature photography a little extra zing. I often see pollen on the faces and bills of the feeding hummers I photograph but I don&#8217;t remember noticing it on their wings before. I&#8217;m surprised that at a wing\u00a0speed of about 53 beats\/second\u00a0the pollen\u00a0hadn&#8217;t been flung off the wing.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;m not a fan\u00a0of cutesy little names applied to my images or those of anyone else\u00a0but with a\u00a0gun pointed\u00a0at my head I&#8217;d reluctantly\u00a0admit that every time I see pollen on a hummer I think of &#8220;pixie dust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell anyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in this case those little things include &#8220;pixie dust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/30\/black-chinned-hummingbird-its-often-the-little-things-that-make-an-image\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6,334,3531,392],"tags":[3532,2174,3533,146,3534,190,1679,2175,311],"class_list":["post-51212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-bird-photography-methods","category-birds","category-black-chinned-hummingbirds","category-feeding-bird-behaviors","tag-archilo","tag-black-chinned-hummingbird","tag-feeding-on-nectar","tag-flight","tag-hummingbird-photography-technique","tag-juvenile","tag-rocky-mountain-bee-plant","tag-setups","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1765-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-dk0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}