Longish exposure. Advice please

other than being over exposed, what are your thoughts on this dragging the shutter images (relatively speaking, 1/200 sec, fill flash). a lot of wing blur, just something different.

Love it! Good job.

I like them very much...Allows me to "feel" the motion of the bird.

They are a bit over but try shooting 1/320- 1/500 without that pesky flash, don't be afraid to under expose either, the white on the neck can take over. I like the prop blur too, it shows how amazingly fast those wings are, many times you will get feather detail, give it a try!

I would just love to see the detail missing in the bodies due to the dragged out exposure.

I like the movement and life it brings to the image. Some loss of overall sharpness has to be traded for the artistic effect I think.

You can probably improve the technicals a bit like exposure. I guess the flash is essential for the sharp part of the image, bouncing the flash to soften it may be benificial.

looks good to me

Although I like the motion captured in the wings, I too would like to see more detail in the body.

thanks every one for your suggestion. I have shot these both without flash, with flash as primary light source, and with high synch flash. thought I would try something different. its always a learning process.

every form of hummer shot is a beauty. art has to be taken as a whole ass well as an individual basis. some like blur and some don't, some like flowers and some like detail, some like artsy, some like encyclopedia still.
i like all of them

unless i am after pure freeze of motion i will use AV and iso100, 400mm @5.6 with strong sunlight from the back, me 10-12 feet away and let the camera do what it wants.

as was mentioned it will usually run in the 320-500 range,

i get detail as well as proper motion this way

for stopping motion i will switch to my 70-200 with flash and preprogrammed settings but that's another post!

thanks terry
In that spirit, here is more in the sharp detail catergory, 1/1250, f 7.1, iso 1600, 200mm 70-200 f4 IS, high speed flash synch

just beautiful kevin. i can see you know your business as well as the one i like too.

look for some new ones from me today!

Superb Kevin.