{"id":144035,"date":"2023-10-01T06:33:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T12:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=144035"},"modified":"2023-10-01T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T14:40:27","slug":"a-mourning-dove-sunflowers-and-choosing-aspect-ratios-when-processing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/01\/a-mourning-dove-sunflowers-and-choosing-aspect-ratios-when-processing-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mourning Dove, Sunflowers And Choosing Aspect Ratios When Processing Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mourning Doves are one of several species that don’t get their fair share of exposure on Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n

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1\/8000, f\/5.6, ISO 1600, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

So photographing this one eight days ago in a remote area of Box Elder County was the perfect opportunity to at least begin to remedy the situation. When I first found ‘him’ he was perched on a rusty old metal fence but eventually he flew a short distance to this much more attractive natural perch. I like lots of things about the photo, including the yellows of massive numbers of out-of-focus sunflowers in the background.<\/p>\n

Regular followers of Feathered Photography may have noticed that, when it comes to composition when I’m cropping my images, my preferred aspect ratio<\/a><\/span><\/span> is 5×7. But 5×7 doesn’t always work out.<\/p>\n

This version of the photo is cropped to my generally preferred 5×7. The bird’s a little higher in the frame than I’d like but I didn’t want to isolate the smaller rock at lower left from the larger rock by moving the bird further down. I don’t like ‘stuff’ poking into my frame edges.<\/p>\n

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But I’ll admit to dinking around with the aspect ratio. This version of the same photo is cropped to 4×5, so I could include the isolated and seemingly unattached single sunflower at upper right that to me resembles, just a little, an out-of-focus sun hanging in the blue sky. This version makes the dove smaller in the frame but I just think that fake sun adds some interest.<\/p>\n

But in the end and as usual, a 4×5 aspect ratio is just too “blocky” for my tastes, too close to a square composition. In this case I also prefer the bird to be larger in the frame so if I had to choose, my choice would be version #1 – the 5×7.<\/p>\n

I’m including the 4×5 version to make viewers aware of some of what goes on in the background when I’m choosing images to post. And deciding how to process them.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Mourning Doves are one of several species that don’t get their fair share of exposure on Feathered Photography. (2 photos)<\/p>\n

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