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

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

tedolf wrote:

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?

No, this is natural lighting, unaided.   Why do you presume a flash had to be involved for a high shutter?   If it's about the wings, these aren't frozen -  just fortunate timing along with the SS.   I shoot rapid fire so's to allow captures with the wings spread back (for better visibility of the body/head).

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