Male Annas Hummingbird Headed To The Feeder
I photographed this gorgeous hummer at my sister's home back in April of 2016.  Because she gets swarms of Hummingbirds to her feeders, I had gone there to utilize a new method of photographing hummingbirds in an effort to eliminate the blur from their wings, and it worked pretty well.  I'd been photographing these birds for several years then, and I wanted to try and do it better.  Down below in the first comment you can see a picture of the lighting setup.

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.
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