Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: First try at hummingbird pictures, 1 by UncleGreenthumb

UncleGreenthumb wrote:
Hi Annie:,,,,

Yes,, but I'm having a hard time trying to keep the little clowns on the blooms.. Between the beeps from the auto focus, and the mirror going up inside the camera right before it records the image is just enough noise to spook them... I'm having the same problem with the feeder shots as well.. Using a 20 millimeter lens and only having the subjects no more than a foot away is just to close trying to get these type of shots.. A friend of mine is going to come over one of these days and take the pictures from a distance that won't spook them so I'll have them on the blooms.. Maybe this weekend if possible.. In the meantime I just keep trying, and hoping they would get use to the noise... No such luck so far, but at least I have them feeding out of my hands.. I've had them land on my fingers while holding one of their feeders, and yesterday for the first time one landed on my knee while sitting in my lawn chair that I plop myself into when shooting them...