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Here's another darling image of this adorable youngster. There are at least 6-10 who visit us all day long. Probably parents and two clutches of babies. They are really fun to watch as they argue about who gets to be at the hummingbird feeder...even though there are six "seats", they don't want to share! :D

By the way, if you compare these two hummingbird images, you'll notice a difference in the coloring. The reason why is that on this picture, I specifically metered the exposure so that it correctly exposed the hummingbird. However, that caused the sky to totally blow out to white. Once I got my picture into photoshop, I selected the hummingbird, placed it and the post on another layer, and properly exposed the sky...presto, it turned a pretty blue again. I also worked on correcting the exposure on the bird and added a bit of saturation, since it has the sun behind it.

In the first picture (see the inset note), I focused on the bird but didn't do anything to meter the image. The result was a very dark bird with the sky as you see it. This is a good example of what you can expect if you use exposure metering on a specific spot in your picture!