Anna’s hummingbird resting after eating
CHAPTER 6 Photographing Hummingbirds
Are you up for a challenge? Photographing hummingbirds is incredibly challenging, but also quite addictive and a lot of fun. It takes more of an investment in equipment than other types of backyard bird photography, but the results are well worth the effort when you capture a sharp image of one of these dazzling birds in flight.
So you need a really, really fast shutter camera or shutter speed for photographing hummingbirds in flight, right? No! What you actually need is a hummingbird feeder and a really, really fast flash, or better yet, several flashes. The vast majority ...
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