Hummers Round 2

scottV

So I read through some articles on how to do it properly and went for another try at capturing the elusive humming bird. These turned out pretty good but the background is way underexposed, looks like I am shooting at night in some of them. I only have 2 flashes to work with currently so I couldn't light the background, also the light seems pretty harsh, should i be difusing it?

dbaker1221

good captures!!

Maestro

Nice images. I think your light is fine. I wouldn't diffuse it, but rather point the flash upwards to make it look more like fill flash rather than a direct flash although you could already be doing that. Your background looks good too. You wouldn't (at least I wouldn't) want the background too brightly exposed or in focus because it would detract from your subject, the hummingbird.

Giphsub

yeah, agreed on the lighting. Great pictures

jonh68

You could shoot at higher ISO. It looks like you have a low ISO with high shutter speed. Because of that, the background is underwhelmed by the light on the subject. The camera just doesn't have enought time to properly expose the background with a high shutterspeed and low ISO. Cranking up the ISO will give more exposure to the background and make it less like it's at night. You will get more noise of course so it's a tradeoff.

Either that, or get a slower shutterspeed.