{"id":133820,"date":"2023-04-14T06:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=133820"},"modified":"2023-04-14T06:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:21:04","slug":"one-more-photo-of-the-cinnamon-teal-drake-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/14\/one-more-photo-of-the-cinnamon-teal-drake-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"One More Photo Of The Cinnamon Teal Drake In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found another photo of him I like. A lot.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I posted three flight shots of a Cinnamon Teal drake<\/span><\/span><\/a> and told readers I had others. What I didn’t say was that those others had various ‘flaws’ that prevented me from posting them. Those flaws include some photos where the duck was too close to the frame edge for a composition I like and\/or photos where I perceived the bird being too small in the frame.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t take into account was the Canon R5’s huge file size, which allows me to crop significantly more than I have in the past and still have plenty of pixels for quality images. I spent 13 years shooting with cameras in the 10 – 20 MP file size range so this creature of habit still has a hard time remembering that the R5 gives me 46 MP to play with.<\/p>\n

So yesterday I actually opened one of those photos that in the preview screen looked to be too small in the frame and realized that a.) I had plenty of pixels to make the duck large enough in the frame for my tastes and b.) I like the photo, a lot.<\/p>\n

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1\/6400, 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

So with that long-winded preamble, here it is.<\/p>\n

Even though there’s still water dripping from him, this photo was taken quite a while after he took off from the water as evidenced by his feet being tucked under his tail. So he’s in full flight rather than still being in the process of taking off. Ducks are speedy and often erratic in full flight so I don’t get photos like this one very often.<\/p>\n

The entire duck is sharp, I like his flight posture, I didn’t have to add canvas for composition and those colors are to die for (the background blue is water, not sky). I could wish for a head turn toward me and better eye contact but that would be greedy of me.<\/p>\n

I’m not above being greedy but I do try to keep it under some semblance of control.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I found another photo of him I like. A lot.<\/p>\n

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