Cross posted in the 300 plus lens club

One of our hummingbirds turned up yesterday, and was flying in front of the kitchen window. "Hey dude, where's my feeder?" I went over to the store a bought a new feeder, last years had become pretty ratty, and put it out, by now, two males and female are present.

K-3 and DA*200 and F1.7x AF adapter.
ƒ4.5, 1/2000s (fixed) , ISO was the variable using TAV
Plus audio bomber's tracking settings which I've programmed into the U1 function. It slows down the burst, but every shot was in focus, hard to argue with that. ISO was either 1600 ISO or 2500 ISO.







Later the same day... out in the sun to get the ISO down (it's as high as 5000 ISO on those first images.)

The female, she's harder to capture.. she doesn't come around as often and tends to land in places where she's partially blocked. I used the stacked TCs for this, but problems with DoF had me taking the 1.4 off for the next set. I also set the shutter speed down to 1/1600, and didn't like it. I put it back to 1/2000 for the next set.





Male- Back down to 340mm from 476, back up to F4.5 from f6.3 and back up to 1/2000s and ISO 500-640 meant didn't have to spend time cleaning up the noise.

[jordechrist]

Really a series of great shots - it was a pleasure to look at them

[Fenyx]

Nice photos! I'm sad that the hummingbirds do not live in my area.. I can do shots of birds, but they are not as beautiful ever.

[geomez]

Always impressed by the shots of hummingbirds in flight. I've never been able to capture them this good.