Hummingbird & Lantana Flower - Click image to view larger!

Thanks for viewing/comments! Just another mundane shot to further my HB

shooting education - :-) - I remember some comercial or line that says

"kids are people too" ... Well, I think "Hummers are people too" .. may be

not quite but they have good/bad days but the main point is that it varies.

They have not been feeding from my spikes flower any more but still hover

around the feeder. Sooo, I tape 3 of the feeder opening (there are 4) and

stick a Lantana flower in the last one to get this shot ... ! Of course, I

remove the flower to reward/pay my actor afterward. :-)

Beautiful capture. Wonderful lighting, colors, detail along with some nice stop action.

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Thanks Steve! Good to hear from you.

Attached is the setup simsilar to this shot which I think is always affective at all time (since I had the feeder under a tree to cut down the ambient light). Just for those who are curious as to how I got the shot. :-)

Great shot, Tm!

Thanks Janine! Good to hear from you, happy hummer shooting! :-)

Very nice Tm...I am envious of your capability, and appreciative of your willingness to share your knowledge and experience. 

I am wondering if one could get by with just two external flashes, and the pop-up flash on the camera used to set them off.  I have a 7D and a 580EX II and an older 550 EX.   I realize a 3-flash setup gives you more options, but hopefully I won't have to buy yet another expensive flash :>)

Thanks and best regards,

Dennis

Hi Dennis! Thanks for stopping by, you can shoot with any amount of flash/flashes that you have (even one) just as long as you set the camera to manual, set the SS to sync SS or less (since it's not important). Set the f-stop to whatever you need after test fire. Set the flash/flashes to manual mode at 1/16 or 1/32 power and you will be all set. I had bought 4 flash trigger/reciever (Youngnuo from Amazon) for about $60 and used all the flashes I had been building up the last 2,3 years for this. You don't need expensive flash as long as the flash you have can adjust power. My two 580EX II & 430EX II can adjust to 1/128 but my 285HV Vivitar can only goes as low as 1/16 and the 283 & 3900 Vivitar does not have power adjustment option (I do set them to lower setting) and were used for background or on camera flash. The Youngnuo trigger/recieve fire off all flashes when I have one on top of the camera. I see some Chinese made Younguo flash around $60 but I don't know how good or how long they would last. May be those Vivitar 285HV at $85 (B&H) might be a good choice if you need to buy more.

I think the RF flash trigger/receiver are superior to the optical sensor trigger since I   don't need and don't want to mount a flash on my camera. I like to have all flashes about equidistance to the flower/bird.