{"id":14407,"date":"2013-04-16T06:10:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=14407"},"modified":"2013-04-16T06:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T12:10:52","slug":"chukar-contrasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/chukar-contrasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar Contrasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early last Sunday morning was a good time for Chukars on Antelope Island.\u00a0 It was too early for the weekend crowds who were mostly still home snoozing away, the light was\u00a0great and the\u00a0Chukars cooperative.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/chukar-contrasts\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,682\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365925278&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chukar 5358 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14409\" alt=\"chukar 5358 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-5358-ron-dudley-400x303.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u00a01\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 640, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We found this one within seconds of our arrival on the island.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t particularly close but the light was great and &#8220;he&#8221; decided to call to some of his buddies down in the grass and sagebrush. (Some of my camera settings weren&#8217;t particularly appropriate in either of these two images)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14408\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/chukar-contrasts\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1365931115&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chukar 4247 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14408\" alt=\"chukar 4247 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/chukar-4247-ron-dudley-400x303.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>\u00a01\/3200, f\/9, ISO 640,\u00a0100-400 @ 400mm,\u00a0natural light<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later in the morning we came across this bird\u00a0that was so close that I had to switch cameras and lenses.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the contrasts in these two images:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light Contrasts &#8211; the first shot was taken in very warm light just as the sun came up while #2 was taken over an hour and a half later so the light was significantly\u00a0cooler<\/li>\n<li>Setting\/Habitat Contrasts &#8211; #1 shows the bird on a typical rock perch while the second bird was foraging among the green\u00a0grass and very attractive little purple flowers<\/li>\n<li>Pose Contrasts &#8211; calling versus classic side view with slight head turn toward the viewer<\/li>\n<li>Poop Contrasts &#8211; both images include poop.\u00a0 #1 shows a dropping under the bird.\u00a0 It would be very easy to remove but I chose to leave it.\u00a0 In #2 the dark brown clump behind the tail is bison poop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny but my first inclination was to clone out the bird dropping in the first image but I liked the bison chip in the second shot because for me it was reminiscent of the historic North American prairies that were teeming with bison.\u00a0 Then I realized that I was being illogical and inconsistent regarding the two kinds of poop.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it&#8217;s a matter of preferences.\u00a0 And taste.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last Sunday morning was a good time for Chukars on Antelope Island.  It was too early for the weekend crowds who were mostly still home snoozing away, the light was great and the Chukars cooperative.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/chukar-contrasts\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,334,352],"tags":[26,31,82,1381,1058],"class_list":["post-14407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-chukars","tag-alectoris-chukar","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-chukar","tag-droppings","tag-poop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-3Kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}