Hummer fly-by.... - a photo on Flickriver

Hummer fly-by....

            I have to confess that I was both surprised and quietly chuffed when I uploaded this and saw that I’d caught this little fellow fairly cleanly.  He appeared from nowhere into that exact position, obligingly stopped for a fraction of a second as the sunlight hit him, and then was gone.

I had been patiently plotting up that little bit of lavender hoping a bee might come and land somewhere on it and was just about to give up because holding the 20x magnifier in place on the back of the LCD with pressure from my eye for any length of time can become uncomfortable, so I was about to quit when there was a glint in the sunlight. I didn’t even think about it before I knew it I had moved the camera and hit the button - one shot and gone - . I hoped the focus point had found him. I checked and saw that Ihad indeed caught him but I can never tell whether something is in proper focus even with that powerful magnifier - I can tell if it is blurred, but often they look sharp but when I upload to the big screen, they are anything but.

This time it was! :^))

Taken on: July 11, 2023

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Hover Fly

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Camera: Fujifilm X-T4, f/4.5, 1/320 sec, 80mm (=120mm), ISO 500 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-T4
Lens:	80.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/320)
Focal Length:	80mm (35mm equivalent: 120mm)
ISO:	500
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Luminar Neo Extension
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