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p.1 #1 · Hummingbirds

Imagemaster is getting me all excited posting his Hummer pics and and I am little bit farther north than he is so my hummers are just starting to settle in, I think there is a couple of females starting to hang around and there has been a few migrating through, soon I will be able to take pictures.

So here are some of my favorites from last year which was my first year of taking Hummingbird pictures. I hope you like them.

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Martin

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Apr 06, 2005 at 07:11 AM

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p.1 #2 · Hummingbirds

Outstanding Hummer pics. An fantastic series where my favorite are the first two. Excellent work

Apr 06, 2005 at 07:19 AM

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p.1 #3 · Hummingbirds

Amazing shots! I particularly like 2 and 4.

Apr 06, 2005 at 10:08 AM

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p.1 #4 · Hummingbirds

Totally first class! How'd you get them to pose? (Sprayed with startch I think!

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Apr 06, 2005 at 10:14 AM

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p.1 #5 · Hummingbirds

Truly jaw-dropping.

Apr 06, 2005 at 11:34 AM

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p.1 #6 · Hummingbirds

Wow these are great

Apr 06, 2005 at 11:54 AM

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p.1 #7 · Hummingbirds

These are the best I've seen.Great images.

Apr 06, 2005 at 12:25 PM

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p.1 #8 · Hummingbirds

amazing!...wowowowow!!

Apr 06, 2005 at 12:33 PM

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p.1 #9 · Hummingbirds

Outstanding Hummies!!!!!!
I would tone down the bgs a bit as not to have them compete with the perfect birds

Apr 06, 2005 at 12:53 PM

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p.1 #10 · Hummingbirds

Simply beautiful Martin - that second one is amazing! Thanks for brightening my morning

Apr 06, 2005 at 01:03 PM

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p.1 #11 · Hummingbirds

Beautiful!! #2 is my favorite- also, the 2nd to the last- is that a grass reed in his beak? Outstanding colors and sharpness on these!!

Tim

Apr 06, 2005 at 02:10 PM

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p.1 #12 · Hummingbirds

Wow, these have to be the best hummingbird pics I have ever seen! not only did you get the exposuer and color right on, you also managed to get the images tach sharp! I don't know what ells to say, but wow!
Did you set up strobes on ether side??

Great images

Thanks for sharing.

Apr 06, 2005 at 02:46 PM

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p.1 #13 · Hummingbirds

Absolutely gorgeous photos. I'd love to shoot hummers sometime but not sure how. Would you like to share some techniques and equipment tips?

Apr 06, 2005 at 03:02 PM

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p.1 #14 · Hummingbirds

Amazing shoots! Thanks for sharing with us

Apr 06, 2005 at 04:09 PM

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p.1 #15 · Hummingbirds

Thanks everybody for the nice comments.

Fabiolad: Good point about the backgrounds, I am going to do them different this year and have them more plane.

Timinator: That's the tongue!

Pnorth: Yes I use strobes from the side, front and back.

Laura: Here is an article I wrote for photos-of-the-year.
http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/hummingbird/

I picked up a lot of information from this article.
http://www.rpphoto.com/howto/hummer/humguide1.htm

Martin

Apr 06, 2005 at 04:39 PM

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p.1 #16 · Hummingbirds

Here are a few more, I try to get different angles and not just the Hummingbird from the side with the wings back.

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Apr 06, 2005 at 04:46 PM

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p.1 #17 · Hummingbirds

OK, Martin, you can't display a series like that and not expect a howling mob at your door asking how you did that! Please, please, give us a detailed description!
Bert

Apr 06, 2005 at 04:51 PM

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p.1 #18 · Hummingbirds

Incredible shots.
Any chance of getting them without a flash?
It looks like you are using at least three.

Apr 06, 2005 at 05:06 PM

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p.1 #19 · Hummingbirds

Thanks Bert and Dna for the comments.

Bert: There is some info on my previous reply to Laura.

Dna: I have seen lots of very nice natural light Hummingbird pictures, I think all you need is some good light, fast glass and flowers or feeders to attract them. I used the 70-300ED for these pictures and it needs to be stopped down to get good results so flash was pretty well necessary, this year I have a 300 f4 afs so I will try some more natural light pictures.

Apr 06, 2005 at 06:24 PM

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p.1 #20 · Hummingbirds

Oh, com'on admit it, theese are stuffed animals, I mean stuffed humming birds and you just hang them on your porch with semi-invisible fishing lines.

DAmn good pics and focusing skills, budd.

- MS

Apr 06, 2005 at 06:35 PM

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p.1 #21 · Hummingbirds

Great in-flight shots Martin. Pretty hard to capture them in flight with good DOF without using flash.

Tony

Apr 06, 2005 at 06:40 PM

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p.1 #22 · Hummingbirds

Outstanding work here, you have some skill and it shows

Apr 06, 2005 at 11:40 PM

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p.1 #23 · Hummingbirds

Thank you very much msoo, Tony and Rob.

One thing I do different than a lot of Hummingbird shooters is that I will use handheld and autofocus a lot, this way you can get the shot when the bird is out of position in your setup and you get the interesting poses, lots of times they are just a twisted jumble of feathers that doesn't make a good picture but occasionlly you get a something interesting.

Here are couple with black backrounds, I prefer a lighted background but sometimes it still makes a nice shot.

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Martin

Apr 07, 2005 at 12:13 AM

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p.1 #24 · Hummingbirds

Hi:

Fantastic. Did you use your 70-300 ED for these shots. WOW, and people question that lens. Your color and detail is absolutly incredible. Thanks for showing these.

Apr 07, 2005 at 02:37 AM

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p.1 #25 · Hummingbirds

Thanks Jeff, yes it was the 70-300ED. Its a good lens when used with in its limitations.

Martin

Apr 07, 2005 at 02:47 AM


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