Pictures
I've been working on my portfolio.
This is the hard part, sifting through the pictures, and deciding which are not only decent examples of my work, not only examples which people will want to buy, but which will convince people that other people will want to buy them.
That is, make them want let me hang them on the wall, so people will buy them.
I have a lot of pictures, and some of them are pretty good, but that takes a lot of second guessing.
So here are some examples
This one looks really good as a 15 x 12 print. I know because![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rednikki has one. She was having a birthday party last week and I called her up, asking (to her, mild consternation) which she like better, flowers or bugs (she said she preferred flowers, but wine would be better).
So I took a few pictures, as the sun was declining and this one was worth working up. It was taken with a 200mm Micro-Nikkor. For this sort of picture it's a nice lens. The working distance makes it easier to get the light behind you, and avoid shading the subject.
The next three were taken at J-Bar which is where Maia keeps Leus. It was mid-December and the hummingbirds were out (as were the bees, some sort of thrush, the pigeons, sparrows and a hawk).
So I put the 300 f-5.6 on the camera and waited. The tripod is only semi-useful for such things, because tracking something like a hummingbird is impossible. Since shutter speeds of less than 1/250th are also useless, it's not such a big deal. I should have used some flash, to be sure the brilliance of the feathers was visible, but I didn't. Next time.
Sipping
Plotting
Away we go
If you want to see them at 800 pixels, go here
This is the hard part, sifting through the pictures, and deciding which are not only decent examples of my work, not only examples which people will want to buy, but which will convince people that other people will want to buy them.
That is, make them want let me hang them on the wall, so people will buy them.
I have a lot of pictures, and some of them are pretty good, but that takes a lot of second guessing.
So here are some examples
This one looks really good as a 15 x 12 print. I know because
rednikki has one. She was having a birthday party last week and I called her up, asking (to her, mild consternation) which she like better, flowers or bugs (she said she preferred flowers, but wine would be better).So I took a few pictures, as the sun was declining and this one was worth working up. It was taken with a 200mm Micro-Nikkor. For this sort of picture it's a nice lens. The working distance makes it easier to get the light behind you, and avoid shading the subject.
The next three were taken at J-Bar which is where Maia keeps Leus. It was mid-December and the hummingbirds were out (as were the bees, some sort of thrush, the pigeons, sparrows and a hawk).
So I put the 300 f-5.6 on the camera and waited. The tripod is only semi-useful for such things, because tracking something like a hummingbird is impossible. Since shutter speeds of less than 1/250th are also useless, it's not such a big deal. I should have used some flash, to be sure the brilliance of the feathers was visible, but I didn't. Next time.
Sipping
Plotting
Away we go
If you want to see them at 800 pixels, go here
Re: Hummingbirds
When Maia and I are settled, I'll set up some wisteria, and some sage, so I can shoot more of them.
They are, actually, easy to photograph, because (on the wing) they are fearless.
TK
Re: Hummingbirds
Do they have any natural predators?
B
Re: Hummingbirds
It's not the speed, there are faster, avian, predators.
It's the combination of small size, and manueverability. There aren't many predators (even ambush predators) who can catch them.
Given the aggressive nature hummingbirds have in the defense of territory, we can be very pleased they don't grow to the size of sparrows, much less pigeons.
Large, aggressive (I've seen them attacking cats) and fearless.
Yikes.