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A few years ago I was doing a lot of hummingbird photography at my sister's house where she has multiple feeders and swarms of hummers trying to take them over.
Lighting stuff. I used a six strobe setup to photograph this tiny terror. I learned the lighting from a book by Linda Robbins called The Hummingbird Guide. Her method is to use a minimum of 5 to 6 strobes, a supplied background (which you have to provide), and photograph the birds in the shade so that you don't have to overpower the sunlight. When you use multiple strobes on a subject in the shade you can use lower power settings for each flash which results in shorter flash duration which means it freezes the wing blur. I used a total of 6 Yongnuo manual strobes. One strobe was pointed at the background, one was underneath the feeder, and the other 4 strobes surrounded the feeder. The strobes were all at about 1/16th power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This is the only way I've ever been able to photograph one of these birds without wing blur.
I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
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Anything lit with off camera strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Objects album which has over 1600 images in it. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157628079460544
Something about rain seems to make the RT hummingbirds nuts. They were swarming around several of the feeders in our garden, including a single port feeder which is designed for one bird at a time...
Lady Hummer
Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird at E B Forsythe NWR in New Jersey.
This is my first hummingbird photograph this year
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It had been raining at a rate of 1/2 inch per hour when this fellow decided to fuel up out of the rain.
Hummer perched on a Zinnia petal...if only just for a second to rest. You can also see near the brown flower head, a tiny yellow dot, thats a highlighted droplet of necter that fell out of this ones mouth. I watched it for a while and it was a messy eater. In less then a month now they will start their journey South to Central America for the winter. Good luck little friends!!
Yesterday I was in our back yard enjoying some iced tea and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this brown hummer flying around. I had only seen one in our yard about 3 years ago and none since. He is so gorgeous! He's still around today and I'm hoping he will let me get a nice close shot of him. He's currently chasing all the other hummers away from the feeders......just when they seemed to be sharing them better. It's so nice to see something other than Anna's or Black-Chinned hummers. I hope he stays for awhile.
I'm sorry I'm so far behind in visiting your streams. I'll try to catch up soon!
Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Archilochus colubris, female, I think. I have started going through some old images of backyard birds and this one caught my eye for some reason. It was taken in August, 2014 with a few others that are similar. Back in those days I had hummer feeders until Paper Wasps took over and pushed and chased the hummers (and me) away. Thank you for taking time from your busy day to view, fave and comment on my images. It is always appreciated.
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When I lived in New Mexico I had Hummers everywhere in my yard. This is my favourite one, those colours are amazing!
I stopped at a light in Gilbert Arizona and saw this modified Hummer drive by. I was able to grab my camera and get it going away. Interesting looking project.
No doubt about it... I was humming my little victory tune in the car on the way home after shooting this one!!
I had absolutely no idea where I was going, or what I wanted to shoot when I left home with my camera yesterday afternoon. What I did know was that the clouds were looking very good and that the wind had died down completely... so I was hoping to find a nice dam somewhere... with some nice foreground interest... preferably something that I haven't shot a million times already!
While driving around aimlessly but quite intently... I kept thinking about what my friend Mark Vee recently said to me. He was so impressed with some of the subjects and compositions that I've managed to capture with my new D3100 lately... that he wondered if it wasn't perhaps a "lucky" camera? I must admit that I have been feeling rather lucky lately... somehow I've managed to find something (fairly) interesting every single time that I've gone out shooting with this camera. I was really hoping that my luck would hold out and that I would find my nice dam and interesting foreground real soon... the sun was going to set in 20 minutes... and I still hadn't found anything even remotely worthwhile!
Just then I drove past the field where our three "experimental" wind turbines are parked... should I bother to stop I wondered... I've shot these things so many times already... and I didn't remember ever seeing a dam here before. But time was running out... I'd better get my camera on my tripod soon... the light was starting to look really good... if I didn't stop now... I was going definitely to miss out on the best part of the sunset!
So I parked the car... hopped over the fence... and ran into the field to see what I could find. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this little pool of water... exactly where I needed it to be... to reflect the wind turbine perfectly in the water. Then I noticed the cracked mud covered by less than an inch of water... that would make the perfect foreground interest... what a luck! Although the wind had died down... every now and again a slight gust would start turning the blades of the turbine. That meant that I would have to wait till they stopped completely if I wanted to match up their position in both the upper and lower images that make up this Vertorama.
The sunset was nice... but the blades were still turning! I tried to shoot the upper and lower images when the blades were in exactly the same position... but I never managed to time it just right. But then... just as the clouds were at their pinkest... the blades stopped turning... and a gap opened up in the clouds right behind the turbine... framing the blades perfectly... what a luck! The best part of the clouds was also positioned perfectly to the right of the turbine... allowing me to compose my Vertorama with the turbine off-center in the frame... what a luck!!
Don't you just love it when everything falls into place like this? I simply couldn't have asked for more! This must be a "lucky" camera!! :)
Nikon D3100, Sigma 10-20mm at 20mm, aperture of f10, with a 1/8th second exposure.
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Female hummer in the pink bee balm. I like the long tracer lines behind her. The male almost never comes around.......strange.
Here's a male, broad-teil hummingbird, flashing his ruby gorget, as he enjoys some catnip at Cherry Creek State Park, Colorado. There's a currant bush behind him, where I've been shooting catbirds, robins, house finch and goldfinch, as they feast on the ripe berries.
I spend hours sitting here, always listening for the telltale sound of a male broad-tail flying by. Some days< i'll hear that sound and not even see the hummer. Other times, I see it flash by and maybe dive bomb me once or twice as it goes about its business. On my lucky days, like this morning, it'll stop and feed on thistle or catnip, or whatever is in bloom. Today, he did it a couple of times. He was only there a few seconds, but I've gotten good at locking him into focus quickly.
I have a button on my camera that I can push to raise the frames per second to 120-fps. I seldom use it, but when a hummingbird comes by, I push the button, so that I get to choose the best pose from many possible.