{"id":29042,"date":"2015-01-18T06:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=29042"},"modified":"2015-01-18T06:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T13:17:25","slug":"a-few-seconds-a-light-change-what-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/a-few-seconds-a-light-change-what-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Seconds, A Light Change – What A Difference!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Changes in light in a very short time can have a dramatic effect on our images.\u00a0 The phenomenon tends to be well understood by landscape photographers but it can have a similar impact in wildlife photography.<\/p>\n

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\"short-eared<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

I photographed this Short-eared Owl perched on a very old fence post this past June in southwest Montana near the border with Idaho.\u00a0The background is mostly\u00a0sagebrush and grass in full sun.<\/p>\n

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\"short-eared<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

But only seconds later (the time stamp on both images is 8:27 AM) the background became deeply shaded by fast-moving clouds and changed the mood of the image dramatically.\u00a0 The effect of the passing cloud was very short-lived as the next image I took of this bird, also at 8:27, looked\u00a0remarkably like the first\u00a0photo I’ve presented here.\u00a0 I’ve done no processing on the background of either\u00a0shot – all\u00a0I’ve done is selectively sharpen the\u00a0bird and the post.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that one\u00a0photo is better or more appealing than the other – that determination would be a matter of preference and taste.\u00a0 But the two images are very, very different.<\/p>\n

And I thought that was interesting because the contrast between the two images is so pronounced and its cause so fleeting.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Changes in light in a very short time can have a dramatic effect on our images. The phenomenon tends to be well understood by landscape photographers but it can have a similar impact in wildlife photography.<\/p>\n

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