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