{"id":142362,"date":"2023-09-05T05:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=142362"},"modified":"2023-09-05T05:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T11:33:41","slug":"a-pair-of-blue-winged-teals-exploding-off-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/05\/a-pair-of-blue-winged-teals-exploding-off-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pair Of Blue-winged Teals Exploding Off The Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus individual flight shots of each of them.<\/p>\n

A week ago today I found three Blue-winged Teals swimming together at Bear River MBR. The next day I posted a single photo of one of them in flight but these photos of them are new to my blog.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, 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

They exploded off the water before I even got them in focus but immediately after they lifted off I managed to get two of the three in frame and sharp. Here a male (green speculum) leads the way with a female not far behind him.<\/p>\n

I got both of them in several other flight shots too but by then the female was further away from me than the male, so I didn’t have enough depth of field to get them both sharp.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

As a result, I’ve cropped the rest of these photo to include only one of them. This is the male, up front, but we can see the tip of the female’s bill at upper left. I could have easily cropped this photo to completely exclude her bill but I cropped it this way so viewers can tell where she was in the uncropped frame.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

Back to the female. She’s centered in the frame because I didn’t have any more room on the right. The male was already out of frame below her, except for his tail.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

Another shot of the female. I ‘cheated’ on this one though. Part of the male was still…<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, 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

in the cropped photo but in the previous version of it I banished him.<\/p>\n

After reading yesterday’s post about some of the unfortunate quirks of the Canon R5, you may have wondered why I still love that camera. These photos are evidence of some of the reasons why (there are others). If I’d been using any of my previous cameras, I’d have had virtually no chance to get as many sharp photos of these ducks as I did. And I wouldn’t have been able to crop anywhere near as much and still have plenty of detail.<\/p>\n

So yes, I’m still a big fan of the R5.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Plus individual flight shots of each of them. (4 photos)<\/p>\n

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