Summer Hummers

Finally started seeing them around.
Shooting fast using HSS. Constructive Critiques appreciated. Thanks for looking.

I think that first you need to set up where you are going to be shooting, if you have feeders up, put some hanging flowers behind your field for a nice background. You either have to get longer glass or get closer to the little guys. They can become quite tolerant of you as long as the feeders are fresh. Hummers are very predictable at a feeder, they will come in for a drink then hover back about 5-8 inches, if you have your settings already in and you are ready for when they hover back, you can fire away at that spot. When they hover back like this, they are usually perfectly still except their wings, kinda floating. I'm not sure of your exif but they look a bit noisy, lower your ISO and set your speed as you can. They are so small you can set your aperture wide open and still get most of them in focus. The best thing you can do is get bigger glass that's a whole different thing, it's either bigger glass or get real close, hope I helped

^^With all that said, I love the lighting and the composition, especially the first one. I'm a big fan of negative space.

Closer.

I should have looked at your Flickr first, you don't need any help....Real Nice shots there.
It will never happen again though

Lol- Oldjackssparrow, thank you!
I'm lost at ' it'll never happen again though"!
Take care.

A couple more. One shot with a one second exposure using stroboscopic flash. I'm liking the idea, but need to refine it some.

One from today

Constructive criticism- yeah, I got one. You're not spreading that skill around enough! Awesome, Jo, enuf said.

Ha! thank you, ardeekay.
What do you mean "not spreading that skill around enough"?
Did I post too many? If so, I apologize. I'm just sharing when I get to photograph them. Tricky little suckers, and I love to practice lighting them.

johendley wrote in post #17629346
Ha! thank you, ardeekay.
What do you mean "not spreading that skill around enough"?
Did I post too many? If so, I apologize. I'm just sharing when I get to photograph them. Tricky little suckers, and I love to practice lighting them.

No, no, Jo, just my corny way of saying that I was envious. Please post more.

Great stuff, lol way to go Rog..I see your as skillful with the jokes as I am lol

A couple from today

Very nice series....love the dark BG

Jo, very nice, sharp shots. Excellent! Since forum didn't include settings w/ these for some reason, I'm curious about them. I'm struggling a bit here and looks like these were in a situation I have-near a feeder and early am or late afternoon. Thanks and again, we'll done.