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Help! Humming Bird Hell.......

Started Jan 13, 2015 | Photos thread
tedolf
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Re: Help! Humming Bird Hell.......

Bob Tullis wrote:

I stage the shot, prefocus in the area in front of the feeder, and block the other 3 ports on the feeder to force the hummer where I want it. When it arrives I lean on the shutter button, so as it hovers in and out of the field of focus I have 1/2 a chance. I've used wireless flash (when it was working), but mainly wait for good light.

Cropping ends up being significant to isolate it from the cheap plastic feeder.

This was also a significant crop:

these are very nice, and your shutter speed is certainly a lot higher than mine, so I presume that you used flash on these?

Thanks

Tedolph

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