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Claire was filling the bird feeders and I was nearby with my camera. She went back to the garage for more supplies and this beautiful hummingbird showed up just long enough for me to focus and press the shutter.
Broad Tailed Hummingbird, Starsmore Discovery Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
A medium-sized hummingbird of subalpine meadows, the Broad-tailed Hummingbird ranges across the south-central Rockies in summer, with most returning to Mexico and Central America during the colder months. Males make a loud trilling noise with their wingtips and perform spectacular aerial displays that make them hard to miss. To survive the cold nights in their high-elevation habitats, Broad-tailed Hummingbirds can enter torpor, slowing their heart rate, and dropping their body temperature.
On a recent trip to Palm Springs, I was delighted to photograph this beautiful and tiny hummingbird, a first for me as they're not found in the Vancouver area.
You better have your camera set right if you want to capture a hummingbird in flight. They can beat their wings about 50 times a second!
Costa's Hummingbird (Calypte costae) perched on a site overlooking its territory along a dry wash on the edge of an urban golf course near Buckeye, Arizona, U.S.A.
25 February, 2014.
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Female or juvenile Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin) hovering near a feeder. This is the latest yard bully that tries to chase the other birds away from my feeders.
Additional observations from other photos of the same bird (not visible in this photo): (1) there are a few red feathers in the center of its gorget; (2) likely female based on green bands on its R2 tail feathers; and (3) distinguished from rufous hummingbird by lack of notched or pinched tip to R2 tail feather.
Lighting Info: Two Canon 540EZs at 1/32, ganged in a shoot-through umbrella from slightly above subject, camera right. Silver reflector (foil) below subject, camera left. SB-800 at 1/32 (-1/3) onto backdrop (fleece jacket). Phottix Strato II wireless triggers on the 540EZs. SB-800 in optical slave mode.
My other hummingbird photos can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/92747424@N05/albums/72157643388058603
I took this picture at my sister's house where she always has at least two feeders out and attracts large quantities of hummingbirds.
Lighting stuff: I learned the lighting that I used here 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, 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 durations which means it freezes the wing blur. The backdrop is a painting my wife did for this purpose. I used 6 Yongnuo strobes because I wanted to use identical manual power output for each flash . 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 around 1/32nd power, in manual mode, and were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N., and you can see the EXIF info on the side. This method is the only way that I've been able to photograph one of these birds with little, or no, wing blur. I've finally learned to pre-focus on a spot near the feeder, using Live View, so that the birds are usually all in focus. I can then sit farther away from the feeder and trigger the strobes and the camera remotely. Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used on that particular day.
I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
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Black-bellied Hummingbird (Eupherusa nigriventis) feeding from flowers at the rainforest of Costa Rica
Anna's Hummingbird - Madera Canyon, Arizona
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hummingbirds only pass through my garden in the spring heading northwards, and again in the late summer on their migration south. I rarely see them in the springtime though I put out the feeder faithfully, but at the end of august into september I am usually rewarded with a few sightings. It could be just one lone bird that visits, but I am delighted when it does :-)
My first hummingbird "session" of 2017. I probably spent an hour watching this hummer chase around as I tried to grab focus.
May 8th, 2011
These little guys had tons of energy as they were zipping back & forth and hovering for only a second. It was almost impossible to get them in focus. (I took almost a hundred pictures to get one good pic.)
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