A camera always attached to your hand can result in….
PICTURE OF THE MOMENT
If you always have your camera attached to your arm, sometimes you can be rewarded with a nice picture or two:
It hovered just a couple of feet from me for about 15 seconds and let me take a dozen pictures. Judging from its behavior, this is either a female or juvenile Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna). Considering that it hovered just feet from me for so long, I would guess a juvenile that doesn’t know any better yet. lol
Anna’s hummingbirds like to hover while they are gathering nectar or catching insects. If your garden is like mine and has lots of spider webs, you can watch them pluck spiders out of the webs. I’m still trying to get that picture.
These two pictures had a shutter speed of 1/640 second. Just how fast a shutter speed do I need to get rid of the motion blur in the wings?
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Posted on March 29, 2012, in Birds, Fauna, Mother & Father Nature, Photos, Picture of the Moment and tagged anna's hummingbird. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
I love it!
Are the birds following you now? Lucky son of a gun! It’s not fair!
I believe the setting has to be over 1/1000
Slowly but surely I’m increasing my shutter speed for these little birds. I just always thought that since they flap their wings at up to 80 times per second, 1/80 should do. Not. Now I’m up to 1/640. I guess 1/1000 will be next.
Wow, you are quick on the draw! Beautiful!!
We have a photography club at my company and I could’ve sworn somebody on the forum said there is no shutter speed fast enough for these birds! Or you need $10K camera for it… something along those lines.
I did a bit of googling and I found this: http://www.dyesscreek.com/miscellaneous_pages/howto_1.html
That was the most useful discourse I’ve ever read on shooting hummingbirds. Thanks!
…happiness and fear of breaking it
Love these RR!
lol
Incredible picture Russel