Green-breasted Mango Tango

[susanschermer]

I wasn't sure which forum this belongs in. It was a set-up with feeder cloned out, and 5 flashes. This is a composite of two images, the male and female of the species. Used the 70-200 with 1.4 TC.
F/14 @ 1/200.

[Maxis Gamez]

Hi Susan,

This is the right forum for this wonderful composite. The pose are very nice and works very well for me.

Perhaps you can tell us your flash set up or post a picture!

Great work!

[James Salywoda]

Very cool and creative Susan a nice image to enjoy. I love the beautiful iridescence captured and the fanned tail feathers.

[susanschermer]

This is me at the set-up. You can see the placement of the strobes. A wireless transmitter syncs all the flashes. Exposure is obtained with use of a hand-held incident light meter. An Incident meter reads the light falling on the subject rather than a camera meter which reads the light reflected off the subject. Most of the modern hand-held meters do both.

[Maxis Gamez]

This is amazing Susan. I would love to give this a try.

[Lana Hays]

Wow Susan......what an excellent hummer image.....especially with 2 in such a wonderful pose. I really appreciate the image of the setup......can't imagine working with that many flashes....I have enough trouble with one. Well done.

[Anita Rakestraw]

The image is just gorgeous, Susan, and thanks so much for the shot of your set up!!

[Greg Basco]

Hi, Susan. I think the composite image is great, and I guess being a composite, it belongs here. I don't remember seeing this image from the hummingbird trip last year but I'm glad to see it here. The lighting setups we used yielded beautiful results, and I love the texture on this one. So, congrats on two cool captures!

Cheers,
Greg Basco

[Glenn Price]

Great comp! And thanks for the setup shot.