Jul 6 2026 | By: Zuckerman Photography
This is a white-necked Jacobin hummingbird I photographed in Peru. I used three flashes for this setup: One on either wide of the bird and one for the background. The background consisted of a 16 x 20 inch print of out of focus foliage. That meant even with a small aperture, the greenery behind the bird remained artfully blurred The shutter speed was 1/200 which synced with the flash but had no bearing on the exposure. The exposure was governed by four elements: the f/stop, the ISO, the power of the flash, and the distance of the flash to the subject. My lens aperture was f/14; the flash-to-subject distance was about 16 inches; the ISO was 2500, and the power of the flash was reduced to 1/16th. By reducing the power output, that shortened the exposure time so the shutter was effectively 1/16000th of a second. This,, in turn, froze the wings and tail feathers.
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