How I got the Shot

The Shot

I use an Olympus OM-D E-M5 iii and the cellphone app oi.share.

I put a rag on the ground to rest the camera on. With the fully articulated screen I arranged the camera for the shots, enabled wifi connection then to closed the screen.

With my phone I set wifi for connect to the camera. Opened the app oi.share and used remote control function. I selected live view so I can control camera settings and press the shutter. 

Now set in a chair and wait for the action and trip the shutter.

An example of the phones screen

That's how I got the Shot.

Behind the Shot

The shot,

I think it's important to learn what did the photographer do to create a photo.

I use an OM-D E-M5 iii with a 14-150mm lens. I used Manual mode with the Aperture as wide the lens allows. This lens is a variable Aperture f/4.0-5.6. when set at 14mm I set the Aperture to f/4.0 since I zoom the Aperture stay wide open.  Usually, for BIF, I start with a Shutter Speed of 1/1250s. Knowing I would be photographing  hummingbird's I chose to it use the Shutter mode pro-capture H. I set it to 30fps, 14 per-capture images and limited to 50 total images. The shutter speed was set to 1/12800s. Since I use auto ISO I knew the ISO would be 200-6400.

I set-up a tripod to a wide enough field of view so hummingbird would be in flight and focused on the feeder.  I then enabled WiFi to I could remotely trigger the shutter with my cellphone.

On my cellphone, while sitting in a comfortable chair, I enabled WiFi and connected to the camera. In the Oi.Share app I enabled the half way setting. Using the remote shutter feature I pressed the Half Way button. The camera began storing 14 images. When a hummingbird was in the frame I pressed the shutter button. 

50 shots. 

I repeated  it l until I felt had enough. From time to time I would tap the Half Way button to stop and restart the sequence.

Importing images into Lightroom classic I set cap locked and used the x, p, u keys to mark delete, pick, unmark and advance to the next image. I used P to mark those birds is right. X was empty frame or otherwise bad images. U for any just to advance to the next image that I wasn't interested for this review.

Sorted to the picks and press 3 or 4 for those I wanted to edit and 1 just to advance to the next image. Then the best 3 or 4 we're choose to editing.

In the Develop mode, crop, white balance to daytime, exposure Auto. Then hold the Alt and set white point and black point then  Vibrance.

Remove distractions if necessary in Photoshop. Then Topaz De Noise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI. 

Back in Lightroom, set to 5 and a Green label. Export.

Remember "show your best".

How Do I Cull +-1200 Photos?

You might wonder why I have 1200 photos in a Mornings shooting? My Olympus OM-D E-M5 iii has a feature called Pro-capture. In normal use the Pro-capture buffer is cleared when the half press is released. No excess photos are written to the SD card.

So why did I take 1200 images? PBCCO error. Problem Between Chair and Camera Operator. I didn't understand the function.

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I thought I had to tap the Half Way button and lock it then tap the shutter, casmera icon, to start the half press. Then tap the camera icon to the it.

So wrong. When the camera is set to a pro-capture mode tapping the Half Way tea l starts the Half Way mode. When Half Way is pressed again the buffet is cleared. If I pressed the shutter release the buffer is written along with the images, to the configured max images, to the SD card. 

I have my camera set to 14 preframes and a total of 50 frames.

Culling? In Lightroom Classic I pressed the Caps Locks.  Then used the x and u keys to reject, X, or unmark, U them. I rejected all with no bird, and other junk image. I then erased them. I then went through the remaining using the U and P, pick flag. My picks were those with a bit in flight. Then I went there the Picked ones and assigned stars, 4 and 5, that I would edit in the Develop module. The ones i choose to publish were given 5 Sears and a green Label