Feeder shots are definitely ugly. A hanging basket of flowers near the feeder will give opportunities that look natural when they opt for the real thing instead of sugar water.
A long lens, 300mm+, helps fill the frame. If you aren't capturing them in flight then a nearby tree or bush is probably already providing them a place of shelter from which they approach the feeder and the return to. I often watch and find that a particular (or multiple) hummingbird will fly back to the exact same spot on a twig or limb repeatedly, making it easy to focus on the right spot and just wait until they land. A flash is typically need to freeze the wings in motion, from what I've read. I don't quite understand why a flash is viewed as needed when their wings typically beat < 100 times per second. It would seem that shutter speed alone would capture it (though I've shot at 1/250 before and have still seen motion blur in the wings). Here's an interesting site http://www.rpphoto.com/howto/hummer/humguide1.asp Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." From: "cbwaters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Hummingbird help Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:49:07 -0400 So I've finally got some hummingbirds at my feeder on a regular basis. Who know how to capture them? (photographically, honest) Care to share tips? Cory -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
