My first hummingbird

[armando_m]

During the weekend I went to visit someone who lives in the woods, noticed a group of hummingbirds with plenty of activity around some weird looking flowers and took a chance shooting them.

I was behind a wall up to the height of my neck, allowing me to get somewhat close to the hummingbirds,
used a 70-300mm zoom @ 300mm and this are still significant crops

Shot on direct sunlight
spot focus
spot exposure
aperture priority F8 or F11
ISO 1000 to get high speed shots

Sometimes I would miss the focus and the lens will hunt all over the place, this lens is particularly noisy making the hummingbirds leave, but they came back every time after a few minutes.

EDIT: after uploading it here noticed I did a so so job about reducing noise in the background on the first image, this is cropped about 80%








My expectations were to have a blah day and it turned out great

Thanks for looking

[CaraRose]

Beautiful Do you know what kind of hummingbird? The colors are gorgeous.

The flowers look like they're related to lion's tail.

[Eric D]

Nice looking Hummer! Nice shots!

[paulnj]

Too tough to ID for me without researching....

[armando_m]

Maybe a Broad billed hummingbird

reference: http://www.rubythroat.org/OtherBroadBilledMain.html

Thanks for all the comments

[paulnj]

I was thinking that too, but the white line above the eye is my issue.. sure looks it minus that white area.

[Don Schaeffer]

beautiful. I never saw one.