{"id":32595,"date":"2015-07-08T05:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=32595"},"modified":"2015-07-08T07:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:15:30","slug":"burrowing-owl-miles-and-miles-of-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/burrowing-owl-miles-and-miles-of-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing Owl – Miles And Miles Of Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning I decided to make my point graphically instead of relying so much on text.<\/p>\n

I usually try to avoid hyperbole in my blog posts because\u00a0it generally isn’t a good fit with science-based writing but this title is so obviously exaggerated that I decided to run with it. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Many of my readers are or aspire to be\u00a0bird photographers so today I pose a question\u00a0related to one of its frustrations – the clipping or cutting off of wings\u00a0at takeoff or in flight.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever had this happen to you?<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 1600, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Or this?<\/p>\n

Photographers are very often fooled by how much room they must allow in the frame to provide for the surprising length of the extended wings of birds. The result is often a clipped or cut off wing. Or two. It happens to all of\u00a0us, even those\u00a0very much aware of the potential\u00a0problem.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing\u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

This image dramatically illustrates the\u00a0length of the fully extended wing of a juvenile Burrowing Owl (all three images were taken about 2\u00a0weeks ago in northern Utah). As you can see the wing is very long.\u00a0Almost shockingly\u00a0so. When one allows\u00a0for the unusually long legs (that we can’t see here) of the tiny Burrowing Owl these wings are incredibly long relative to body size. In other images of this bird the wing is even longer than this but the head turn isn’t as nice…<\/p>\n

Then throw in the fact that photogenically the most\u00a0appealing flight posture is “wings up” or “wings down” (rather than extended horizontally where they would be much easier to keep in the frame) and the challenges of avoiding clipped wings in flight become painfully obvious.<\/p>\n

So plan ahead for what you’re after and choose your gear and distance from the subject\u00a0accordingly.\u00a0\u00a0It’s too late once the shutter clicks.<\/p>\n

Bird photography ain’t easy.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Many of my readers are or aspire to be bird photographers so today I pose a question related to one of its frustrations.<\/p>\n

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