{"id":155,"date":"2008-07-11T23:26:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dondailey.wordpress.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-07-11T23:26:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T04:26:39","slug":"my-first-hummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/my-first-hummer\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Hummer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0269blog.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[155]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dondailey.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/dsc_0269blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we got the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hummingbirds.net\/hainsworth.html\">sugar water mix<\/a> right on the hummingbird feeder, these little guys have been visiting the back yard every night. I set up my two flashes on opposite sides of the feeder set to 1\/4 power. I put the camera on a tripod at about 90 degrees to the flashes. Setting the camera to shoot with the remote, I sat on the patio and waited for the hummers to show up. One did. I cranked up the shutter speed to darken the ambient light so that most of the lighting came from the flashes. The flash duration at such a low power is very short, meaning it can stop very fast action, such as a hummingbird&#8217;s beating wings. At least that was the theory. And it worked for the most part. I&#8217;m not too happy with the background or the angle of the flashes, so I&#8217;m going to try again tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we got the sugar water mix right on the hummingbird feeder, these little guys have been visiting the back yard every night. I set up my two flashes on opposite sides of the feeder set to 1\/4 power. I put the camera on a tripod at about 90 degrees to the flashes. Setting the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-strobistry","category-photography","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dondailey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}