Monday, May 20, 2024

[Dave]

A few weeks ago I announced that for the second time a hummingbird was building a nest in a plant under our front eaves. I added that it will be very hard to get photos because height and location of the nest. That has turned out to be true.

Yesterday I took a couple of shots of the Mama hummer (I'm calling her Annabel, because she is an Anna's Hummingbird.) in the nest incubating one or two eggs. I wasn't expecting the photos to be very good because I had to use a very slow shutter speed since the nest was in a dark area under the eaves.

Here is what the camera captured...

   

But I decided to give processing a try anyway. I was very surprised and pleased that my processed image (cropped, brightened a lot, and sharpened a little) far exceeded my expectations...