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Photographing Hummingbirds

August 16 or 17
Woburn, MA
$185/person

Capture wing-stopping images of hummingbirds in flight as they feed at wildflowers. Learn tips, tricks, and practical techniques to capture hummingbirds on camera in this limited size workshop.


Learn how to capture images of hummingbirds in flight, their iridescent beauty frozen in time. Hummingbirds are speedy and small. Being so fast and colorful, hummingbirds are challenging subjects to photograph, but when you capture them, it is a gratifying and rewarding experience.

This workshop is designed to build your confidence in bird photography. Learn about cameras, lenses, tripods, and other gear. Benefit from training on how to push beyond the auto mode of your camera, composing powerful images along the way. Field techniques include aligning with the sun and wind, tuning in to bird songs and behavior, and benefiting from your local birding community. This workshop is limited to 6 students only.

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What You’ll Learn

  • Advanced metering and autofocus strategies for wildlife

  • Exposure

  • Composition

  • Techniques to capture the perfect shot

  • Freezing motion

  • Using the sun/wind to your advantage

  • Bird songs & Behavior

Recommended Equipment

  • Mirrorless or DSLR camera body

  • Wider telephoto lens(70-200mm or 300mm)

  • Longer telephoto lens (200-500mm, 500mm or 600mm)

  • Tripod

  • Plenty of spare batteries/memory cards

  • Small stool which can be carried and moved if necessary

Physical Difficulty

We will need to walk to our shooting location. The area where we will be shooting has nature paths. These paths are unpaved and are uneven. There are no hills or anything strenuous. We will be doing a significant amount of waiting which will involve just standing, so a small stool would be useful.

Meeting Details

The exact location will be emailed prior to the workshop, however we will be in Woburn MA at Horn Pond.

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Hope Pashos

Hope has embraced the digital medium after shooting on film since she was a child. Her specialties are nature, landscapes, and astrophotography. She loves to photograph the world around her, but focuses on New England and its shores and abundant waterfalls and travels frequently to Iceland as well as many US National Parks.

Hope’s passion is to share her knowledge with others. A former Pro and Genius with Apple, Hope has been able to teach iPhoneography and develop techniques with the iPhone for both taking and editing photographs. She developed one of the first iPhone photography workshops, teaching her signature macro technique on an iPhone 4. As the iPhone camera developed, so too did her techniques. With the built-in capabilities of the newest iPhones and additional attachment lenses, Hope can now photograph any type of subject, under any conditions. And using a combination of the latest mobile editing apps, she is able to digitally process her images - both from her phone and from her full-sized Sony camera - while on the go.

Hope has had her collection ‘Boston After Dark’ displayed in a collective exhibition. She has also been exhibited in locations around the US, including an exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Photography, and printed in various publications.

You can see her work at www.hopepashos.com