Purple sunbird (female)

5 years 9 months ago - 5 years 9 months ago #592181 by earthian
The sunbird is a beautiful bird. The male of this species is the more colourful (purple) and the female has an olive back and yellowish breast.

These shots were some of my first efforts at photographing birds and i sat for about two hours in our community garden (much to the amusement of passers by) waiting patiently for the birds to get used to my presence.


Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D3S
Lens: 600.0 mm f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Aperture: f/4.5
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Captured: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 8:33am



Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D3S
Lens: 600.0 mm f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Captured: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 8:34am


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5 years 9 months ago #592300 by effron
I like them, interesting bird I don't see if not posted. May I suggest a tighter crop?. The bird gets a little lost in that busy plant.

Why so serious?
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5 years 9 months ago #592324 by Nikon Shooter

effron wrote: May I suggest a tighter crop?

:agree:
May I suggest the crop be minimum a 3:4 when vertical?

Very cool little fellow!

Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 9 months ago #592566 by Stephen Graham
Yeah! It looks cute!


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5 years 9 months ago #592620 by earthian
Here you go. A different snap and a tighter crop...

Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D3S
Lens: 600.0 mm f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Aperture: f/4.0
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Captured: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 8:34am


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5 years 9 months ago #592758 by Rohan Tushar
Nice! The tight crop worked well! 


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5 years 9 months ago #592897 by earthian
I like this one for the details of the sunbird, though there is a bit of clutter in the back ground.



Make: NIKON CORPORATION
Model: NIKON D3S
Lens: 600.0 mm f/4.0
ISO: 1600
Aperture: f/6.3
Shutter speed: 1/400 sec
Captured: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 8:33am


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