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CAMERA
Medium format camera
120mm macro lens
Short extension tube
SETUP
Two medium sized soft lights were used. A laser
trigger was aligned across the inner throat of the iris so when the
hummingbird came in to drink the necktar her beak would break the beam.
A delay module was
used to delay the trigger signal long enough for the bird to finish inserting
her beak before an electronic
cable release tripped the shutter. After everything is setup theres's
nothing to do but go and sit in a lawn chair until your strobes go off
and then its time to recock the shutter and take another break.
The exposure was 1/500 sec. at F22 with electronic flash. The ambient
exposure would have been 1/8 sec. at F22 which put the ambient light 6
stops down from the flash exposure. This is one of those times where it
really is nice having a flash sync speed of 1/500 sec. as the ambient
light had no effect on the image.
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