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Oh, Ok--
two shots from today
7D, 700mm 5.6, f5.6,1/1600, ISO640
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thanks for viewing
Great shots everyone. The pictures in this thread are very inspiring and completely amaze me most days. The HB shots are spectacular.
I haven't taken many bird shots since getting my 300 F4 IS, but since winter is coming around in the area I am starting to see more raptors. Here is one I captured the other day. It is a little over sharpened, but thought it turned out ok. I really wish he was on a branch or something, but I guess I light pole will do.
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Jayson,
really nice Cooper
A couple more recent HB shots with multiple flash setup....a la Bob Williams
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Thanks Joel. Those humming bird shots are unreal! Did you use the flashes to black out the background or was there something planned for that? I really like the way it is isolated on that background.
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Thanks Jayson.....
the idea is that you set your exposure to NOT allow any ambient light into the image. This means that without the flash the image will be black (completely underexposed)
So the image is illuminated by ONLY the flash which has a very short duration of around 1/15,000 sec. Since I had no flash to illuminate the background it remains black.
Bob explains it much better in his Humminbird tutorial.
Joel
thanks joel, But you shot those wonderful Hummers. Based on recommendations from the readers, I tried something a little different yesterday---But I must explain: Two weeks ago, I promised the wife I would move my "studio" of of the back porch and I did. Packed up everything for the year and started thinking about our migrant bird season which is fast approaching. Unfortunately, I still wasn't satisfied ending the HB season with problems, so I did a partial set-up yesterday evening. No back ground, no flowers, just work on getting the bird right. And I think I was pretty close. The major change was setting 3 flashes to 1/64th power and wow, out of only ten shots, my keeper rate was 80%.
Here are a couple--My focus was a little soft at the eye but that really wasn't what I was working on---anyway, here they are---
f/16, 1/125th, ISO 200, 3 flashes @1/64th
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the flashes were set up as 1 low right, 1 low center and one high left---I really like the way this particular configuration lit the bird---what do you think?
Bob
Here is one more that I just though was cute---looks like he is spitting something out that he didn't like"
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