CB Coronets at Flower

Gallery: AvianPosted July 30, 2015235 views10 comments

That's Chestnut-breasted Coronets. Here's a multi-flash shot from our January Ecuador tour taken at Guango Lodge This is almost full frame, flower filled with sugar water on a Wimberley Plamp, artificial background.

Canon 5D3 500F4 1/125 F20, iso 500, 580ex and 5 Nikon SB-26 slave flashes set at 1/16 power, Gitzo tripod, Wimberley head.

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10 comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on July 30, 2015 at 5:49 PM

Great interaction, Nate. Excellent image quality. Thanks for the description of the set-up.

devil

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on July 30, 2015 at 6:41 PM

Excellent use of this flash set-up to not only freeze, but fill without over-powering the image..

The two faced off like this with one inflight show some great interaction, you just can't ask for more than this.

Excellent devil devil

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on July 30, 2015 at 9:35 PM

I really like the interaction in this image Nate. I don't recall seeing too many hummingbird images with interaction being posted, so kudos! Nice job on the flash setup

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Comment posted by Thiraviyam Yogaraj on July 31, 2015 at 5:34 AM

So wonderful shot and nice to see an action oriented photograph

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on July 31, 2015 at 7:34 AM

Nice face-off here Nate, really cool interaction. The background set looks great and shows the hummers off well.

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Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on July 31, 2015 at 9:35 AM

Hi Nate

This photograph is really nice. The flash stopped the acton at a speed I did not possible. Nice color anddetail.

Peter

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Comment posted by Hans Overduin on July 31, 2015 at 10:09 AM

One is great, Two is better cool . Nice interactive shot you have here ! You must be happy I guess enlightened , cheers, Hans

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Comment posted by Jefferson Silva on August 2, 2015 at 2:56 PM

Just perfect!

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on August 3, 2015 at 8:52 AM

Sweet! Nice moment you've captured Nate. Ray

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on August 4, 2015 at 5:52 AM

Awesome inter-action you captured of this pair Nate! That poor guy on the left looks like he's had a really bad day.

Sweet One devil

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