Harried Hurried Hummer Headed Home
I photographed this hungry little bird at my sister's home back in April of 2016.  I had gone there to try,  for the first time, a new method of photographing hummingbirds, in an effort to eliminate the blur from their wings.  Amazingly it worked!  I've been photographing these birds for several years now, and I wanted to try and do it better.

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 0f 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 durations which means it freezes the wing blur. I used 5 Yongnuo strobes and another 3rd party manual flash for a total of 6 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 first time I've ever photographed one of these birds without the wing blur.  Down below in the first comment, you can see a picture of the setup that I used.

I've taken quite a few pictures of hummers over the years and put them an album creatively called Hummingbirds.
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I've also created a video, which is a slide show with 45 hummingbird pictures, set to music.
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