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<\/a><\/p>\n1\/2500, 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>\nUsually on that morning the terns weren’t flying high enough to get the mountains in the background so I got green vegetation growing along the canal banks, or directly behind the canal banks, instead. I like these backgrounds better.<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, 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>\nOccasionally I got a mix of green and dead vegetation in the background, which I also like. In fact, I like pretty much everything about this photo.<\/p>\n
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When the bokeh of my backgrounds is as soft as it usually is with my lens, little or no detail can be perceived so I suspect viewers often wonder what it really looked like back there. What caused that color, or that mix of colors or a particular implied texture?<\/p>\n
With that introduction, I decided to put one of my mistakes of that morning to good use.<\/p>\n
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This photo was taken by mistake, when the tern I was trying to photograph zipped out of frame incredibly fast, so my active focus point grabbed onto the base of the Promontory Mountains in the far background. It’s what I call an “air shot” that resulted when my reflexes weren’t quick enough to avoid taking the shot with no bird in the frame. It’s full frame (uncropped) except for a little loss when I rotated the photo to level during processing.<\/p>\n
Every photo I took that morning was taken from the same spot and when the bird was in about the same place over the canal so somewhere in this photo is the background for each of them, or at least most of them. The background in the first photo in this post is the mountains at the top of the frame and the background for the other two photos is somewhere amongst the greenery. The canal the terns were fishing is barely out of frame at bottom.<\/p>\n
More than you wanted to know about backgrounds perhaps. Or maybe not.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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