Matt,
Have you tried to ask about hummer photography on some of the biring resource
locations? I'll bet that this issue has been solved there.
I'm assuming that you're going to be stalking hummers at feeders, as their
speed is far too fast for you to catch them on most wildflowers. The best
spots that I know of are at private feeders in California or at concentraion
spots in Southern Arizona. In s.AZ, you can get up to 11 different species,
which is by far the highest variety north of Mexico. Madera or Ramsey canyon
in the Santa Rita's or the Huachuca Mts are likely the best places. They have
permanant feeders setup that really bring them in. You can easily see 15-20 at
one time on a group of feeders and likely sit within 10 feet and take pictures
once they get accustomed to you.
With such places where the birds are accustomed to humans, you will likely be
able to use wider apertures, which will help.
I've got a couple of very nice books on North American hummingbirds at home
that I could research if you want. Please leave me a private email at the
address below if you want.
Skip
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>Subject: Re: [OM] F280 FP
> From: Matt BenDaniel <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:32:41 -0400
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>What you and Moose are saying makes sense. I hadn't investigated how a
>conventional shutter curtain works. Thanks for the info.
>
>Anyway my plan was to use at least four slaved flashes set at 1/16th power.
>This will generate a 1/10000s flash, and be bright enough for me to use f/16
>or f/22 on ISO 100 film. I will shade the scene from sunlight to reduce
>ghosting during the 1/60s sync time.
>
>As per Moose's suggestion I will test my setup as best I can before travelling
>out to the hummers.
>
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