That's really nice > On 2 Aug 2016, at 19:42, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > > ann sanfedele wrote: > >> Ditto what Bob said ... except the bright colors are part of what >> attracts the hummers... they think they are flowers .. so that is a >> predicament. > > Serious hummingbird photographers get liquid hummingbird food > (basically sugary water) for feeders and use an eyedropper to load it > into real flowers. Attracts the birds to a specific flower (at which > your tripod-mounted camera and long lens are aimed) and looks much > nicer than those ugly feeders. > > Just sitting down with a big lens and trying to track hummingbirds as > they choose their own flowers is a good way to burn off a thousand > shots or so while only getting one or two keepers. Mind you, every > once in a while you do get a good one: > http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d904208.htm > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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