{"id":110875,"date":"2022-05-09T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=110875"},"modified":"2022-05-09T06:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T12:25:21","slug":"long-billed-curlew-in-flight-against-a-dark-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/09\/long-billed-curlew-in-flight-against-a-dark-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-billed Curlew In Flight Against A Dark Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

In bird photography, backgrounds and settings matter.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, f\/5.6, ISO 800, 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, while I was trying to photograph the flight display of a male Northern Mockingbird on Antelope Island, this (male, I think) Long-billed Curlew made a surprise appearance in the long grasses to the right of the greasewood bush the mockingbird was in. He foraged for a while but he wasn’t close and he was partly hidden by vegetation so I didn’t take many photos of him. Besides, I was mostly focused on the mockingbird because I really wanted to capture his flight display. .<\/p>\n

When the curlew suddenly started calling I thought he might take off and I barely got him in my viewfinder before he launched. I got quite a few photos of him in flight and this is one of my favorites, in large part because of the dark green background and the wildflowers at the bottom of the frame. I think the warm morning light looks really good on him.<\/p>\n

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If my intentions pan out you’re going to see more, a lot more, of this curlew tomorrow. I continue to get requests asking for my opinion of the Canon R5 as a camera dedicated to bird photography and I think the series of photos I took of this bird in flight would be ideal visual evidence of its capabilities, or lack thereof. But that post will involve a lot of photos, processing, writing and plain old-fashioned work on my part so it’ll have to wait until at least tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The tentative title for tomorrow’s post is “So, How Good Is The Canon R5 For Bird Photography Really?”. If you’re a bird photographer, particularly a Canon shooter, stay tuned because I suspect that post will be of interest to you.<\/p>\n

Ron.<\/p>\n

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PS – It’s been a while but I did it again. While I was working on this post at 4:04 this morning I hit the “Publish” button by mistake and before I was ready so blog subscribers received an email with a link to the incomplete post. In a panic I quickly changed the status of the post to “Private” which effectively disabled the link.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry about that<\/em>. At 4 in the morning I just haven’t had enough coffee to keep my wits about me. At least that’s my excuse.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In bird photography, backgrounds and settings matter.<\/p>\n

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