{"id":72228,"date":"2019-05-29T04:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T10:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=72228"},"modified":"2019-05-29T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:48:32","slug":"broad-tailed-hummingbird-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad-tailed Hummingbird In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you time it just right even the wings of a hummingbird in flight can be reasonably sharp at relatively slow shutter speeds.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"72235\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-in-flight\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"5.6","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1557821432","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"broad-tailed hummingbird 8412c ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-72235 size-full\" title=\"broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/2000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is one of several Broad-tailed Hummingbirds I photographed in the mountains of the west desert two weeks ago. They were feeding on a flowering currant bush and I caught this one as it hovered over the flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Generally I prefer even the wings of hummingbirds to be at least reasonably sharp but on this morning I was struggling for enough light and shutter speed to accomplish it. Usually it requires SS’s of 1\/3200 – 1\/5000 for hummers but here I had only about half that and the wings are still fairly sharp. In previous and following shots of the same bird they were just a blur so what happened here?<\/p>\n<p>The difference is because in this shot I caught the wings at the apex of their beat cycle, in-between going up and going down, so they were traveling at a much slower speed. And it just happens that this is one of my preferred wing positions so things worked out nicely.<\/p>\n<p>A brief post today because it’s looking like I’ll actually be able to go shooting this morning and I may be going early. This blustery spring it’s been rare to have decent morning light for bird photography so I’d better jump on the chance while I have it.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>PS – I was too optimistic about going shooting this morning. It’s mostly clear here but all my shooting spots are either socked in with clouds or likely to be by the time I could get there. Staying home, again!<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you time it just right even the wings of a hummingbird in flight can be reasonably sharp at relatively slow shutter speeds.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/29\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-in-flight\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,334,4082],"tags":[2202,146,2203,4563,311],"class_list":["post-72228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-photography-methods","category-birds","category-broad-tailed-hummingbirds","tag-broad-tailed-hummingbird","tag-flight","tag-selasphorus-platycercus","tag-shutter-speed-required","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-8412c-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-iMY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}