Humming Birds from this morning: These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual...

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual, Pentax K-7, 300 mm lens, f8, ISO 400, aperture priority speeds ranging from 1/180-350.

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Photosmoke

Very nice shots

Puglover Loc: Lakeside Ca.

vicksart wrote:

These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual, Pentax K-7, 300 mm lens, f8, ISO 400, aperture priority speeds ranging from 1/180-350.

Beautiful shots!!!!

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

Photosmoke wrote:

Very nice shots

Thanks Photosmoke. I appreciate your taking time to look and comment.

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

Puglover wrote:

Beautiful shots!!!!

Thanks Terri. Your kind words are always appreciated.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

So pretty!!

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

Linda From Maine wrote:

So pretty!!

Thanks Linda. These guys are like little jewels in the realm of birds.

merrytexan Loc: georgia

vicksart wrote:

These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual, Pentax K-7, 300 mm lens, f8, ISO 400, aperture priority speeds ranging from 1/180-350.

beautiful hummy pics!

bob_71 Loc: Severna Park, MD

Splendid shots...they deserve to be viewed in DOWNLOAD!

Bob

dakotablues Loc: Detroit, MI

I absolutely love these shots - thank you for sharing them.

In only an attempt to learn and possibly showing my ignorance, I've a few questions. I don't know that lens (or big lenses for that matter), but wondering if f8 was a conscious choice? Seems like super nice bokeh in the shots and a small DOF doesn't seem like it would be a problem given a small subject, so I'm wondering with daylight and a sitting bird, could you have opened that aperture up and taken the ISO to 100? May have produced less grain? I'm just trying to learn in the event I ever get a better lens, so PLEASE don't take this as any form of criticism - just wanting to learn.

Thank you again - super nice captures!

DB

vicksart wrote:

These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual, Pentax K-7, 300 mm lens, f8, ISO 400, aperture priority speeds ranging from 1/180-350.

Pierre H.J. Dumais Loc: Mississippi Mills, Ont.

vicksart wrote:

These are almost straight out of the camera - cropped and with a little sharpening. Fortunately this guy was willing to sit still. Focus was manual, Pentax K-7, 300 mm lens, f8, ISO 400, aperture priority speeds ranging from 1/180-350.

Really good work Vicky. They are especially good on download.

Pierre

hangman45 Loc: Hueytown Alabama

Is that the DA*300 Vicky? The K-7 still does a great job.
Very nice shots

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

merrytexan wrote:

beautiful hummy pics!

Thanks so much. I like that - "hummy" - nice abbreviation.

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

hangman45 wrote:

Is that the DA*300 Vicky? The K-7 still does a great job.
Very nice shots

I'm not sure what DA is but my lens is a Pentax 300. I bought the K-7 going on 3 years ago as a replacement for a Pentax SLR so I could continue to use the lenses. The 300 was a Christmas present and now lives on the K-7. I recently bought a Canon 60D with a kit zoom as a back up.

I think these were better shots than I've gotten in the past thanks to much good advice on this forum.

I truly appreciate your taking time to look and comment.

vicksart Loc: Novato, CA -earthquake country

bob_71 wrote:

Splendid shots...they deserve to be viewed in DOWNLOAD!

Bob

Thanks so much Bob. I almost forgot to hit download.