Jack, I think your shots are pretty darned good for a first attempt. I have no experience shooting hummers specifically, but I have seen the terrific results of folks who do while using strobes and flashes, and I know lighting in general. Based on that, if I were trying this, I'd get the flash as close to the feeder as I could and use a wireless trigger on the camera to fire it. Two flashes would be even better.
I'd try starting with bare flash, but I'd also be strongly tempted to make the light source larger than the hummer so it's not such a hard light. I'd use a silver reflector of some sort for efficiency. I bet that a two-light setup -- a soft source at 45 degrees from the front and a hard source from the rear as a rim light to outline the bird and also shine through the translucent wings -- would be wonderful. We only ever get about three hummer sightings per season at our feeder, or I'd try this myself. On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My wife made the decision (of course) to hang a couple Hummingbird feeders. > I've been dinkin' around attempting to freeze them with an AF540-FGZ on the > K-3. > I've chosen to use "M" flash setting at 1/64 duration. Not doing it!! > Said setting does, however, fully light a scene 'prox 25' across the family > room..?? > 1/1=1/1200. > Tried PTTL at minus a couple stops duration. Background too dark and image > soft. I read it > can do 1/20000 in the right light. Probably shooting into a mirror close-up.;) > > Any one? > > J > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=1080 > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=1081 > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=1082 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
