I’m sorry but you know I can’t resist my little hummers and when they buzz around the flowers instead of the feeders I enjoy them even more. Best on black.
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Oh my I love this!
I finally have my hummingbird feeder set up Now waiting for some hummingbirds!
Do you have some advice you can share on how to capture hummingbirds?
@radiogirl Firstly, do you want to freeze the wing movement? If so, you will need at least a shutter speed of 1/2000th of a second. I usually use F 5.6 so as not to get ISO any higher than it has to be. Of course you may need to exposure compensate depending on how bright the rest of the photo is. I should have increased my exposure a bit on this shot because the hummer was pretty dark before I boosted shadows in LR. Then there is the focusing! I use both continuous focusing and continuous shutter. At first I used to focus in the plane of the feeder that they seemed most likely to fall in and used single point focus to get that point of feeder in focus and then switched to manual focus and just shot off a bunch of frames when a hummer flew into that area. I deleted probably 50 photos for each that was in focus. Now I use continuous tracking focus (which is an option on my camera) and still delete a very high percentage of shots. Feel free to ask more. I'm not sure I've answered what you asked for. good luck. I look forward to seeing your photos
@jgpittenger Thank you for this, it gives me something to work on all summer.
I do want to freeze the movement, I was actually trying 1/500, so I will boost the shutter speed up!
July 24th, 2019
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I finally have my hummingbird feeder set up Now waiting for some hummingbirds!
Do you have some advice you can share on how to capture hummingbirds?
I do want to freeze the movement, I was actually trying 1/500, so I will boost the shutter speed up!