Hummingbird

[Steaphany]

This was shot with my Sigma SD14 through an Orion Apex 90mm Ø Maksutov Cassegrain, focal length 1250mm with a fixed aperture of 13.9. The 35mm equivalent focal length being 2125mm.

[crisscross]

Hey Steaphany! You need a another mirror behind the feeder

From a quick play it looks as if there is a lot more colour and detail available of the feathers in the shaded area; its nice in itself, but also seems to give a balance to the image which is slightly dominated by the beak showing it was taken from a long way off.....then finally crop it to square??

[Steaphany]

The problem of that shooting session was actually too many Hummies, there were nearly constant squabbles as birds would chase off each other.

For me, this meant that I had to aim and focus on one spot and hope that I bird would pause long enough to get a shot.