Broadbill Hummingbird Nest Building (Captive)

Posted by Harvey Edelman on Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:47 am

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Canon EOS 1D
Handheld
Speedlight 550EX
Canon 180mm. Macro Lens
Evaluative Metering -1 2/3
Aperature Priority
E-TTL 0
F3.5 @ 1/500 Sec.

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by fredcor on Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:22 am

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Some shot Harvey. 1/500 capture is great. The action with the nesting material is very nice. Green leaves at the top frame the picture very well and the blue BG helps to focus attention on the bird.

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by Carol Clarke on Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:24 am

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Pretty much what Lat said!!

Sweet shot of this whirring morsel Harvey!

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by DC on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:09 am

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Coooool

500th is usually fast enough to freeze most things. Just proves how fast them little wings go

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by Bill Whala on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:45 am

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In addition to the above, I like the semi-circle created by the bird and nesting material.

Excellent shot!!

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by Dan Barthel on Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:06 am

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Very nice. Maybe a better beamer would have intensified the flash enough to freeze the wings.

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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:23 am

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Dan Barthel wrote:Very nice. Maybe a better beamer would have intensified the flash enough to freeze the wings.

This was done with a 180mm. macro lens and a BB would be overkill I think. I have some others shot at 1/3500 sec. which freezes everything. I was hoping for a bit of motion blur here.

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by AForns on Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:22 am

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Cool shot Harvey Can't think of anything that could have been done differently. All elements working together make a very strong image. Sweet

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by Noel on Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:03 pm

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Great flight capture. This is hard to do (speaking from personal experience)! Nice positioning for background lighting.

What blows me away is the amount of remaining blur in those wings at 1/500th. Wow. I actually got one at 1/4000th once and there was stillblur!

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by Mike Danzenbaker on Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:34 pm

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Harvey,

Very, very nice; I like the motion blur here, and the way the nesting material makes a nearly complete sweep through the frame, through the bird.

I'm having trouble understanding EV -1 2/3 here; correct? why? how?

Also, are you sure about the ID?

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by Harvey Edelman on Thu Apr 01, 2004 12:58 pm

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Mike Danzenbaker wrote:Harvey,

Very, very nice; I like the motion blur here, and the way the nesting material makes a nearly complete sweep through the frame, through the bird.

I'm having trouble understanding EV -1 2/3 here; correct? why? how?

Also, are you sure about the ID?

Question #1...It was relatively dark and yet I wanted to stay at ISO 200 and have a shutter speed of 1/500 Sec. EV -1 2/3 gave me that and the flash became my primary source of light..
Question #2. Yup

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by Sandy Mossberg on Thu Apr 01, 2004 2:20 pm

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Sweet as can be, Harvey.

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by AlexC on Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:11 pm

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Harvey, love the pulling of the nesting material and the nesting material on his feet, excellent exposure and nice blurry wings, Well done!!
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by Bruce DiVaccaro on Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:48 pm