{"id":30008,"date":"2015-03-12T06:39:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=30008"},"modified":"2015-03-12T07:11:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:11:21","slug":"bear-river-tundra-swans-in-flight-swan-day-is-quickly-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/bear-river-tundra-swans-in-flight-swan-day-is-quickly-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear River Tundra Swans In Flight (Swan Day is quickly approaching)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy the variety of getting different numbers of birds and varying backgrounds in my swan flight shots.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS\u00a0USM +1.4x tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each of these first three images was taken a week ago (3\/5\/15) at Bear River MBR. A single bird in flight against a plain blue sky can be kind of blas\u00e9 so for me an interesting wing position like this one can help to compensate.<\/p>\n

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\u00a01\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS\u00a0USM +1.4x tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Aesthetically I\u00a0generally prefer to get an odd number of birds in the image but the more birds you have the more difficult it is to get interesting and varying wing positions without having parts of one swan\u00a0in front of another. This image is full frame.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS\u00a0USM +1.4x tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0In my area I’m sometimes lucky enough to get mountains in the background.\u00a0For me doing so adds interest and context.<\/p>\n

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\"tundra1\/8000, f\/7.1, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I took this shot exactly a year before the previous ones (3\/5\/14) and I decided to include it here because of the interesting lighting. The swans are in full sunlight with dark, foreboding\u00a0skies in the background and I also have shaded mountains at the bottom of the frame.<\/p>\n

I had a difficult time deciding how to frame this shot so\u00a0in the end I chose\u00a0to…<\/p>\n

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include two versions for your consideration. My preference leans toward this last one but I do vacillate…<\/p>\n

Swan Day at Bear River MBR<\/a> is March 14 (two days from now) and it should be a banner year for viewing them. Typically there’d be about 13,000 swans on the refuge this time of year but because of our warm winter with little ice more birds than usual have wintered here and the last count was roughly 21,000 birds.\u00a0According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that’s easily a fourth of all the swans in the western U.S.<\/p>\n

Even though they can be quite difficult to get close to, seeing (and hearing<\/a>)\u00a0that many swans at one time is quite the spectacle and I encourage those interested to make the effort to see them if at all possible.<\/p>\n

After all, they won’t be here much longer.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note: Photographers will likely ponder my high shutter speeds in these shots (especially the last one).\u00a0Those settings were simply mistakes resulting from changing conditions, bright white birds, occasional dark backgrounds and lack of time to make adjustments.\u00a0 Excuses, excuses, I know…<\/em><\/p>\n

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I enjoy the variety of getting different numbers of birds and varying backgrounds in my swan flight shots.<\/p>\n

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