At the end of last summer I had the chance to shoot hummingbirds at a butterfly bush (Buddleia) in my yard. I decided to try using the Sony FE 200-600mm f5.6-6.3 G OSS lens. I usually use my 90mm macro at close quarters but the sound of the shutter clicking does disturb the bird so I decided that distance that the 600mm would allow me to use might avoid this problem. It did and I was able to get some naturalistic shots without the nervous little buggers skittering away.
Great picture. I wish you could magnify this image and, of course, slow down the wings.
Thanks. To completely stop the wings I’d have to shorten the exposure from 1/1000th to 1/2000th of a second. But that means we have to lower the quality of the picture by raising the ISO factor. So it’s a trade off. Unfortunately the bird wasn’t there for long that day. I’ll see if I can find an older picture at the higher speed.