Hummingbird Pictures

October 25th, 2008 | Categories: Camera Technique, Galleries

While visiting family in southern California I spent some time photographing hummingbird that were congregating around the feeders at the house. I’ve created a gallery of hummingbird photos to share. I’m not an ornithologist so I’m not sure what species are represented in the collection, but they sure are fun to try to catch with the camera lens.

The basic setup was my Canon 1DMk2 with the 70-200/2.8L IS lens attached as well as the 550EX flash. This was mounted on my tripod (because I was standing in position for a long time). Since I wanted to use very fast shutter speeds I put the flash into high speed sync mode. I shot in manual mode so that I could control the background exposure seperately from the birds. The camera lens was about 4 to 6 feet from the hovering hummers, very close to the minimum focusing distance.

Any of these hummingbird pictures are available for sale. If you’re interested in using one, please contact me.