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The background is made up of a blueberry bush on the left and an old fence to the right. We have hummer friendly plants along the edge of our patio.
I recently had a chance to spend a number of hours photographing Broad-Tailed hummingbirds in northern Colorado. What I have concluded, is that if these birds were any larger and carnivorous.....humans would not exist! These tiny and speedy birds are incredibly territorial and spend much of their day fighting over who should get to visit the feeders. One of my greatest photographic challenges is capturing these mighty little fighters with my camera. So much has to fall into place to be able to get 2 birds in focus in one image. This is why it takes hours of trying and waiting.
I photographed this hummingbird headed towards one of our feeders back in April of 2016. Normally I use strobes for hummingbird photography, but in this case the strobes and stands weren't set up so I went with fast shutter speed and no depth of field.
Other humming bird pictures that I've taken can be seen in my creatively titled Hummingbirds album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/albums/72157627149575339
Hummingbirds are coming back to my back yard feeders so I pulled out the camera today. I couldn't match quality from last year yet though, so here's one from last year.
Every summer I wait for humming birds. The majority of North American hummingbirds fly to Mexico or Central America for the winter. While these journeys aren't as long as those made by South America-bound warblers, they are impressive nonetheless, especially considering the diminutive size of hummingbirds.
Hummingbirds are among the smallest types of birds and can only be found naturally in the Americas. Hummingbirds are so small that its smallest species weighs less than a penny :) :)
This shot was a surprize. After trying a number of times and getting a number of shot most of which were not acceptable because the sun is coming in from the left and the right was usually darker than I wanted. a couple shots had a portion of it's neck radient. This one was interesting to me because I had never seen the neck red without it being reflective.
Be sure to check out Jim's hummers - they are real treats: luckymc6468
Thanks for the visit - please enjoy a safe week.
I love capturing images of the "holdover hummers". They are the ones that have not migrated south and will have to survive the Pacific Northwest winter. I admire them a lot! :-)
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.
www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157627149575339/
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