Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
We’ve been recently inundated with a huge population of hummingbirds coming in to our feeders and I was lucky to get this pose of a piebald female rufous early yesterday in limited light..
Specific Feedback
I realize that this is more of a documentary image than a photo gem but I just had to share this rarity. Any advice?
Technical Details
Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/1000th, f 11, 760mm, ISO 18000, cropped to 5324 x 3921.
It would be pretty easy to get rid of the feeder, Dave, but for a documentary image it doesn’t matter. I’ve seen hummingbirds that looked this way because they had a whitish pollen on their heads, but looking at the larger image, I can’t see any evidence that that’s the situation here, so it’s probably a partially leucistic individual.
Interesting subject you captured Dave. Seeing a leucistic individual is always attention getting. I like the pose of the bird. 1/1000s was too slow to get the bird’s body very sharp but it seems like you were operating under constraints of low light.
Interesting hummer, David, with a great look at the head and some nice fanning of the tail. I’m okay with the feeder as it provides some context. Thanks for sharing.
