We're all pretty used to multiple-flash hummingbird images by now, so I wanted to experiment with something a little different. So, I chose an open aperture and set up my branch to run all the way through the frame. The trick was getting the birds to go to the right clump of flowers! Lighting was set up to simulate the muted, filtered sunlight in the cloud forest.
This is a coppery-headed emerald visiting native epiphyte flowers in the Ericaceae (blueberry/cranberry) family.
Tech: Was shooting with a friend so we used his Nikon equipment. Nikon D700, Nikon 70-200 f2.8, f4, 1/200, ISO 250, four SB-600s, tripod, artificial background
Field: Setup near feeder, flower baited with sugar water, highlands of Costa Rica
Post: Full-frame, a bit of saturation in Lightroom, and that's it







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