What settings do I use...
Today when my hubby was watering the tomatoes he noticed the hummers hovering
just about a foot or so away letting the spray from the hose blow on them.
It was a fine mist the wind was carrying to them. It was about 101 degrees out.
I want to see if I can set it up to shoot them with the water drops showing.
I guess I will be using the 70-210 unless the 50mm would be best.
That is what I need to find out and what settings I should try.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)
Re: What settings do I use...
Experimenting will teach you a ton about the results you'll get from changing various settings. I'd say that water coming out of a hose would be fairly blurred at 1/60 or probably even 1/125 shutter speed. Adjust your aperture accordingly. If you want the water stopped in mid-air, try 1/500. The different apertures that you use because of this will give you completely different looks to the images.
Can't remember what the shutter speed is that you'd need to stop a hummingbird's wings, but it's much faster than anything I've mentioned.
Re: What settings do I use...
Thank you. I think that will do the job for me (if the bird will cooperate) :)