PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

See the latest gallery of Best Photos of the Month - July #2, 2008.

The 17-inch widescreen mobile workstation ThinkPad W700 laptop, offering a built-in graphics tablet and color calibrator, bundled with the new Nvidia Quadro FX 2700M and 3700M Open GL graphics processors with up to 1GB of video memory. It displays 72% (45% only for normal laptop) of the possible color gamut of the Adobe RGB color space.

ThinkPad W700 laptop aimed at photographers and designers, a 7-in-1 built-in card reader, wireless connectivity options and multimedia capabilities including an optional Blu-ray DVD burner/player. It also features up to 8GB of high speed DDR3 memory, optional dual hard drives with RAID configurations. What a laptop!

Hummingbird photography is addictive!! Stimulates your creativity, not only challenges you but takes you to great places, and hopefully rewards you with some great pics. Almost everyone likes Hummingbirds. They’re so small and fast moving, it’s hard to get a good look at them. When you show pictures of hummingbirds, people are impressed, because they can see all of the wonderful details. I thought it would be great to share how best to try and set up for hummingbirds so you can produce results you can be happy with.

So what does it take to capture a hummingbird in flight in detail? First and foremost HUMMINGBIRDS , mainly patience, and a little setup and lastly a feeder to attract them.

GEAR- any camera, lenses will depend on the working distance your birds will allow you, norm 8-10 ft, normally anywhere from 200-400mm. Dont need fast glass, ie. f2.8 as you are stopping down your glass from f-8 to f13 depending on exposure. I use my 300mm + 1.4TC on a tripod with gimbal head.

Flashes- Hummingbirds wings can beat up to 80 times per second, this produces their signature hum. To the naked eye and you camera—the wings are just a blur. One of the first questions I’m asked is what shutter speed I use to stop this super-fast movement. The real answer is that the motion is frozen with high speed electronic flash, not by a fast shutter speed on the camera….. full article.