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reko wrote:
Great shots, detail and color are first rate, nice shootin'.
Thank you, Reko. 
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kirry007 wrote:
* After picking up my jaw from the floor... *
Hide, tremendous stuff. You are clearly several notches above than most photogs hwen it comes to hummers...whoa !
It would be great if you could share your trade secret and tell us mortals how you achieve such sharpness,detail and beautiful background blur, it would be appreciated !!
Kiran
Thank you, Kiran. My master is Keith Rankin and I've learnt a lot form him
but I had to go through lots of trials and errors. He wrote a great article about
how to shoot hummingbirds and this is a must-read article if you're interested in
hummingbird flash photography.
Here's the link :http://www.pixel-shooter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=129
I use both oil paintings and prints for my backdrop. I found an easy way to make
a print BG. Take a flower picture,plants or even a garden but take an unfocused image.
Because the BG doean't have to be sharp ,the unfocused image will be just
fine for the BG. If you already fave some floral pictures, then blurr them in PS and
get a 24x20 print at your local Office Max or somewhere.
I use D300 and 300 f4-afs and I usually use 1/250s, f/8-11,iso 320-500.
All my flashes are set to manual,and I use M 1/16 to see how the image will look
like and constantly check the exposure using histogram.
I think 5 flashes are a sweet spot and whether you need 5 flashes or 6 flashes
all depends on how many flashes you want for the BG. I used one flash for the BG.
I hope this will help.
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i'm blown away completely here 
My ideal hummer shot in winter would be an in-flight shot with