Blue and Red Make Purple
by Gregory Scott
Title
Blue and Red Make Purple
Artist
Gregory Scott
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Sometimes I run out of titles because I have a lot of hummingbird photos. In this title, I'm referring to the way the blue gorget iridescence reflects onto the bottom of the red/orange beak, and makes it look purple. Surely a minor detail in the photo. It's a basic pose for a hovering hummingbird, but what I particularly like about this photo, beyond all the detail and color in general, is the one feather out of place on the wing on the right side, and the sharp focus on the tail (particularly) both wing tips, and the body. Generally, everything is very sharp except the tip of the bill.
Shot at F-22 and 1/200th second and ISO 160 with my 4 head high speed Olsen Ultra flash on half power, for a 1/20000th second actual exposure duration, using my Canon EF100mm f2.8 Macro USM lens and a Canon EOS 5D MK II, several tripods for flashes and camera, a saucer design hummingbird feeder with the perch cut off and all the ports but one sealed with masking tape, a white cardboard background, a tarp for shade, and an electrical push-button shutter release, and a lawn chair and a big shady hat, and a cold Diet Coca Cola, in a national forest campgorund in the Coronado National Forest in southeast Arizona, sought of Tuscon, in Madera Canyon, in the spring, when it's still not to high at a mile high elevation.
There. Now you know all my secrets. Feel free to go make your own, if you wish! Oh, this is a broad-billed hummingbird, which in the USA is generally found mostly in far southern east Arizona in the "sky island" ecosystems
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July 11th, 2013
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