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Home All Posts Audubon Magazine Birds In Focus Winner
Audubon Magazine Birds In Focus Winner

Dennis December 26, 2010 7 Comments

Audubon Magazine Birds In Focus Winner

Green-breasted Mango

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

My image of a Green-breasted Mango was selected as Grand Prize Winner of the Audubon Magazine Birds In Focus photography contest.  It was selected from the 8,000 entries in this year’s competition.  The image is one of the thousands of images I captured during my trip to Costa Rica in March 2010.  You can find the announcement of the winners at Audubon Magazine.

Another of my entries was selected as one of the Top 100 images of the contest and can be seen here.  Rather than tell you which one is mine, I’ll leave it to you to explore all of these wonderful images.  After you see these images, you’ll understand how honored I am that my image was selected from among those images.

Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.

Filed Under: All Posts, Featured, Hummingbirds, News Tagged With: Hummingbird

Comments

  1. Cemal Ekin says

    December 29, 2010 at 11:51 am

    Dennis, when I saw this image, along with a few others I think I told you they were different from your other hummingbird photographs. I even tried putting this on your banner if you remember with a bit of a “twist”. I am no bird photographer, but I know a good photograph when I see one. These are excellent photographs. Congratulations again.

  2. Robin Neiswender says

    January 24, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    This is an amazing capture.. Very beautiful and an inspiration to keep shooting birds.. This was my first year of enteries and this shot is just gorgeous..!! Congratulations..!

  3. Joe LeFevre says

    May 10, 2011 at 10:20 am

    Dennis:
    I just saw your Grand Prize hummingbird photo in Nature’s Best magazine. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Great capture with wonderful smooth background. That’s a huge honor. Keep up the good work.

    Best,
    Joe LeFevre

  4. Dennis says

    May 10, 2011 at 10:34 am

    Thanks Joe,
    It’s even more amazing when comparing the top 100 images of the contest on the Audubon site. I may have picked one of the others if I were judging. There are certainly images I wish I had captured.

  5. Richard says

    July 12, 2011 at 3:10 pm

    Incredible photo! All of the photos were great and I am glad that I was not one of the judges as it would have been very difficult to pick a winner. Your photo though is beautifully captured! Well done!

  6. Jessica K. Sullivan says

    July 29, 2011 at 3:53 pm

    I just saw your amazing photo on the wall of the Audubon’s Facebook. Wow! May I ask, what camera did you use? What were your settings? I am very inspired to keep practicing different captures of Hummingbirds from great photographers such as yourself. Thank you for sharing!

  7. Dennis says

    August 3, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    Hi Jessica,

    Thanks for your kind words.
    I use three Canon 550EX flashes and one 420EZ flash which has a Ikelite trigger attached. The 550EXs are triggered by the Canon 7D built-in remote flash controller, similar to the ST-E2. The 420 detects the flash of one of the 550s and triggers from that. The 420EZ in lighting the background, two 550s are on each side of the bird and one is either placed behind as a “hair light” or sometimes placed in front higher or lower than one of the other flashes. The Canon 7D manual mode settings are ISO 400 or 500, f/16 tp f/20, and always 1/200 sec exposure time.

    This set up is typical, but depending on the situation, the lights may be moved around a bit. It’s the short duration of the flash that captures the wing movement, and the flashes are usually set to 1/8 or 1/16 power to make the flash duration on the order of 1/10,000 second.

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