Hi, I've posted plenty of hummingbird pics here but I wanted to show something different here to prove I can take pictures that aren't at a setup:) and to contribute to this month's theme. I love blurs and decided to make an image that combined slow shutter speed with flash and panning on some cattle egrets that fly up a deeply forested river every morning on Costa Rica's South Pacific Coast.
This was at about 5:30 in the morning so the low light really lent itself to a blur image to begin with. I wanted deep blacks so I positioned myself across from an area of especially dark forest. I also wanted the whites to be nice and bright as I wasn't worried about feather detail. And I did decide to pan on a slight upward swing on purpose to accentuate the flight motion of the birds.
Tech: Canon 40D, Canon 300 f2.8 + 1.4 x, f22, 1/10, ISO 100, 550 EX flash at -2, tripod with ballhead and Sidekick, manual metering
Post-processing: Full-frame image, slight tweak of the black and white points to up the contrast but it's not that different from the RAW file
Cheers,
Greg Basco







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