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Posted: 4/26/2015 2:45:21 AM EDT

Been shooting the hummingbirds at the feeder outside my window recently. Today I decided to see how they would react to my speedlights. The first couple shot spooked them, but overall they didn't mind too much. I guess you are a little more tolerant to distractions when your metabolism requires you to eat every 15 minutes or you die

I shot for a couple hours and came up with a few decent shots, but really liked this one.

Had a very small softbox about 2 feet over head with a SB-900 and another naked SB-900 down and to the left for some rim light. Both fired by Pocket Wizard Flex TT5 system.

D4 200mm 1/1000 @ f/8 ISO 1250

Posted: 4/26/2015 2:57:07 AM EDT

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Nice.

Posted: 4/26/2015 9:13:31 AM EDT

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That is really nice. Could you get the ISO down some at the expense of some aperture in order to get a photo with less noise? I think that looks great, but I would think that you could get the ISO down with the flash?

Posted: 4/26/2015 11:14:34 AM EDT

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I needed a larger plane of focus as the bird would move in and out quite a bit.... They are just too quick for AF against the back ground I was shooting. I could have increased the power of my speedlights a bit more and dropped the ISO but I didn't want them pumping out too much light as I was concerned about blinding my little buddy/subject. The D4 can handle 1250 just fine.

Posted: 4/26/2015 2:45:17 PM EDT

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I needed a larger plane of focus as the bird would move in and out quite a bit.... They are just too quick for AF against the back ground I was shooting. I could have increased the power of my speedlights a bit more and dropped the ISO but I didn't want them pumping out too much light as I was concerned about blinding my little buddy/subject. The D4 can handle 1250 just fine.

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That is really nice. Could you get the ISO down some at the expense of some aperture in order to get a photo with less noise? I think that looks great, but I would think that you could get the ISO down with the flash?

I needed a larger plane of focus as the bird would move in and out quite a bit.... They are just too quick for AF against the back ground I was shooting. I could have increased the power of my speedlights a bit more and dropped the ISO but I didn't want them pumping out too much light as I was concerned about blinding my little buddy/subject. The D4 can handle 1250 just fine.

Thanks for the info. I've gotten pretty lucky with some good shots of hummers using point and shoot jobs. This will be my first year with a nice camera so it'll be interesting to see how I can fair.