Medium format camera
120mm macro lens
Short extension tube
High speed photography
SETUP:
This stop action photo close up of a female hummingbird in flight required two medium sized high speed soft lights . The first was placed behind the flowers and was actually used as the entire background surface. The second soft light was placed to the right of the lens. A white fill card was placed to the left of the lens. A laser trigger was aligned across the inner throat of the iris so when the hummingbird came in to drink nectar her beak would break the beam of the laser beam tripper. 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 there's nothing to do but go and sit in a lawn chair until your strobes go off and then its time to re-cock the shutter and take another break.
