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<\/p>\nI’ve become quite interested in the effects of fog on some of my avian subjects.\u00a0\u00a0Often I don’t like those effects but occasionally I find them visually interesting.<\/p>\n
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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n I photographed this Black-billed Magpie eight days ago on Antelope Island.\u00a0 The fog was constantly changing from thick to thin\u00a0and back again but at this moment it was quite dense.\u00a0 I’ve rarely (if ever) even attempted to photograph a bird in flight through this much fog but when\u00a0the bird took off instinct took over and I fired off a burst, fully expecting to trash the shots but I actually think this one’s kind of interesting.\u00a0 Even though the detail is muted by the fog, it’s still there in all of the blacks except for parts of the head and neck.\u00a0 In fact, I seldom get detail in this many of the blacks of a magpie, even in good light.\u00a0 I suspect that without the effects of the fog I might have had some pretty spectacular iridescence in this shot.<\/p>\n I was also pleasantly surprised that the bird was sharp under these conditions.\u00a0 The sun burning through the fog behind me provided an extra-large and bright catch light in the eye.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Less than five minutes earlier the fog had been much less dense (though some was present, enough to have an effect on the image) and the results were quite different.\u00a0 There’s much more color and even detail in the background and less detail in the blacks of the bird (though what detail is there has not been muted much by fog).\u00a0 I think it’s interesting that the backgrounds of these two shots would have been very similar without the presence of thick fog in the first image.<\/p>\n I realize that foggy images won’t appeal to everyone.\u00a0 But as a photographer I like to explore this kind of thing and my blog is my outlet…<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve become quite interested in the effects of fog on some of my avian subjects. Often I don’t like those effects but occasionally I find them visually interesting.<\/p>\n![\"black-billed](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/black-billed-magpie-4707b-ron-dudley.jpg\")
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