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<\/p>\nA type of photo I don’t get very often.<\/p>\n
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1\/5000, f\/5.6, ISO 640, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Three days ago on Antelope Island this Western Meadowlark was side-lit and pretty much buried in sagebrush so I wasn’t particularly fond of my photos of ‘him’ while he was perched. And I was slow on the trigger when he took off so I missed the most dynamic takeoff shots.<\/p>\n But somehow I managed to get focus locked on him again after he’d been in flight for long enough to give him time to retract his landing gear, so his feet and legs were tucked tightly against his body. I call that flight posture “full flight” as opposed to photos where their feet and legs are still extended from pushing off during takeoff.<\/p>\n I rarely capture songbirds in “full flight” and get them sharp enough because little birds are just too fast and erratic in flight, at least for this photographer.<\/p>\n Maybe my new camera had something to do with it. Probably so.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A type of photo I don’t get very often.<\/p>\n