Eric Gofreed
Well-Known Member
It’s Winged Wednesday, where feathers, flutters, and flight steal the show! Whether they’re zipping, swooping, sunbathing, or just striking a sassy pose, we want to see your favorite winged wonders. Birds, bugs, bats, or butterflies—if it’s got wings, it’s fair game!
After missing the last two migration cycles, I finally dusted off the gear and got back to some multi-flash practice.
This round was just the warm-up—think of it as stretching before a floral dance battle. But brace yourselves… the bees are coming, the flowers are blooming, and I’ve got enough flash power to make a disco ball jealous.
Not my current setup (I’ve made some tweaks), but here’s a link showing the basic multi-flash layout I use for stop-action hummingbird photography:
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Female Black-chinned Hummingbird
Female Rufous Hummingbird
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Female Rufous and female Black-chinned Hummingbirds face off
Male Anna's Hummingbird:
A heartbeat held where the wind dares not steal—
captured by a lens that makes the moment real.
And now, for a moment worth freezing:
At 1/2400 of a second, time isn’t moving—it’s taking notes.
This Anna’s Hummingbird isn’t just fast… he’s cartoon-fast.
Faster than a squirrel on espresso with a deadline.
Faster than gossip at a family reunion.
Faster than you can say, “Wait—was that a hummingbird?”
And yet, he can stop midair,
hovering like physics just went out for lunch.
That’s the magic of multi-flash photography:
catching the impossible standing still.
After missing the last two migration cycles, I finally dusted off the gear and got back to some multi-flash practice.
This round was just the warm-up—think of it as stretching before a floral dance battle. But brace yourselves… the bees are coming, the flowers are blooming, and I’ve got enough flash power to make a disco ball jealous.
Not my current setup (I’ve made some tweaks), but here’s a link showing the basic multi-flash layout I use for stop-action hummingbird photography:...
Female Black-chinned Hummingbird
Female Rufous Hummingbird
Male Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Female Rufous and female Black-chinned Hummingbirds face off
Male Anna's Hummingbird:
A heartbeat held where the wind dares not steal—
captured by a lens that makes the moment real.
And now, for a moment worth freezing:
At 1/2400 of a second, time isn’t moving—it’s taking notes.
This Anna’s Hummingbird isn’t just fast… he’s cartoon-fast.
Faster than a squirrel on espresso with a deadline.
Faster than gossip at a family reunion.
Faster than you can say, “Wait—was that a hummingbird?”
And yet, he can stop midair,
hovering like physics just went out for lunch.
That’s the magic of multi-flash photography:
catching the impossible standing still.
