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<\/p>\nPhotography rules – meant to be broken?<\/p>\n
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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 1600, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Several weeks ago I spent a few minutes with a pair of House Wrens in the mountains. Their nest was in this rusty old pipe and here the female (females do most of the nest building) was about to enter the pipe with yet another strand of dried grass for its construction.<\/p>\n Getting from the top of the pipe to the actual entrance requires some pretty impressive acrobatics so I was trying to capture her in some interesting postures as she fell and twisted in the air in order to grab the bottom edge of the pipe with her feet. But mostly I failed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 1600, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n The maneuver was just too fast – the best I did was to catch her just as her feet grabbed the bottom of the pipe while her wings were still out. This might be one of those times when it would pay for me to switch over to using the electronic shutter of the R5, which has a much faster burst rate of 20 frames\/second.<\/p>\n Next time maybe I’ll actually think of doing it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 2000, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n I have mixed feelings about this last shot. I was happy to capture both wrens in the same photo, especially with the male “talking” to his mate (giving directions?), but I didn’t have enough depth of field to get them both sharp – the female inside the pipe is soft.<\/p>\n Amongst bird photographers there’s a general rule of thumb saying that if you have two or more birds in the frame and you can’t get them all sharp, the best option is to get the front bird sharp. I tried, but this was one of those times when the animal\/eye detection feature of the R5 grabbed onto the eye of the bird in the back. I didn’t have time to manually move my active focus point so my only choice was to take the shot as it was or miss it altogether.<\/p>\n Oh well, I still like the photo and besides, there’s another rule of thumb that says “rules are meant to be broken”. In this photo, given the more interesting posture of the male, perhaps the second rule… rules.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photography rules – meant to be broken?\u00a0 (3 photos)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/house-wren-7236-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"house-wren-7236-ron-dudley\\"")
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