What settings do I use...

[TexDot]

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

[berrywise]

Sounds like ya got it under control. Fiddle with your shutter speed to capture as much blur as you want in the wings of the birds and set your aperture accordingly. Shoot wide open with your big lens to give you a shallow depth of field and post your results!

[TexDot]

Thank you Berrywise. I guess I am looking for a little more detail. I really want to the water drops soft in some photos and in some I guess what I am looking for is for the water to be hard? I am not sure how to describe what I mean.
Have patience with me please. I am a bit of a slow learner.

[another view]

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.

[TexDot]

Thank you. I think that will do the job for me (if the bird will cooperate)