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Hummers At Mealtime
Hummers At Mealtime

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

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Taken on: April 29, 2016
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Camera: Nikon D5600, f/16.0, 1/200 sec, 420mm (=630mm), ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Nikon D5600
Lens: 300.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture: f/16.0
Exposure Time: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length: 420mm (35mm equivalent: 630mm)
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: -1/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Saturation: High
Sharpness: Hard
Color Space: Uncalibrated
Software: Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Windows)
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