Broad-tailed Humingbirds

[Michael Liskay]

Spent 5 days in the Portal, AZ area near the Chiricahua Mts. Here is a common Hummie seen at feeders and in the wild.

 

[JimFox]

Awesome work Michael. These are not easy to capture, at least they never have been for me. I like all of these a lot.

Do you have a certain shutter speed you set for these guys?

 

[Michael Liskay]

Jim

Thanks for the kind words.

I actually set on aperture priority to blur the background AMAP and the ISO at 1000 - 1600. Get some noise but with NR reduction software that is not an issue. The first one was at f 6.3 and 1/250. the other two much faster shutter, e.g., 1/3200.

 

[AlanLichty]

Wonderful level of detail in these shots. I am amazed you are getting results like this at 1/250s - I usually shoot these guys at 1/2000s or 1/3000s.

 

[Michael Liskay]

Wonderful level of detail in these shots. I am amazed you are getting results like this at 1/250s - I usually shoot these guys at 1/2000s or 1/3000s.

Alan

That one at 1/250 was a lucky outlier. The other two were at 1/3200 and 1/8000!