Female Hummingbird

It appears that all the males have left, but we still have a few females left. I caught this one yesterday afternoon. I thought the floating blossom was interesting.

Please C & C

Horace Best
Goldsboro NC

Nice capture. Looks like you stopped the wings with the flash. How much flash (enough to make the background black)? How far away? Is the flower a mandevilla? That's what I have been using. - Terry

Two Canon 580's at 1/16 power approximately 16 inches away from subject. Using a Canon 500mm f/4 shut down approximately 5 stops under ambiant, in this case it was f8 as it was getting dark and ambiant was gone.

The blossum was a petunia, which they are not crazy about (unless it is attached to a tube with food in it).

That's been my strategy also. I found the best way to get the -5 exposure was to use a variable neutral density filter (though not in this case if it's too dark). That way I can have all my other settings (ISO, aperture) as I want rather than as the exposure dictates. - Terry

Looks a bit over flashed, but still a very nice image.