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<\/p>\nA dynamic flight posture that promotes getting good morning light and detail on a black bird in flight.<\/p>\n
I have difficulty getting much detail on cormorants in flight because their nearly black feathers reflect very little light. But that changes when their body surfaces are perpendicular to the sun, or nearly so.<\/p>\n
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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Yesterday morning while shooting from my tripod I managed to keep this cormorant entirely in frame as it was banking sharply to its left so nearly all of its visible surfaces were well lit and reflecting at least some light. Having the early morning sun almost directly behind me helped a lot. There are trees in the background because it was flying low over a pond that that has trees behind it.<\/p>\n However, when birds are banking they’re turning sharply so they’re very hard to keep centered in the frame (or to keep in the frame at all) so I didn’t have much wiggle room with this bird. Its head was too close to the right frame edge for a composition that worked for me so I added some canvas on the right side. Even with the added canvas the cormorant is pretty tight in the frame but with this shot I can live with it.<\/p>\n Even when banking at steep angles birds keep their heads level so we can see the twist in his long neck that resulted when the bird kept its head level while its body was turned almost 90\u00b0. I like seeing stuff like that in my photos.<\/p>\n My primary regret with the photo is that the cormorant had already turned slightly away from me so we can’t see its beautiful and distinctive eye quite as well as I’d like.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This may or may not be the same cormorant as in the previous image. A few minutes earlier this one swam by very close to me and I actually believe that it was surprised that it was so close to me when it surfaced, so it’s skedaddling.<\/p>\n But the bird was close enough to provide a pretty good look at its eye, the spectacular cormorant eye that I wish we could see a little better in the previous image.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A dynamic flight posture that promotes getting good morning light and detail on a black bird in flight.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/double-crested-cormorant-3712-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"double-crested-cormorant-3712-ron-dudley\\"")
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