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<\/p>\nComplementary colors can make common species look uncommonly good.<\/p>\n
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1\/2000, f\/6.3, 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 I found this Horned Lark just over a week ago near Grantsville, Utah. Though many colors are similar throughout the image\u00a0the bird still stands out because of the light and shadows and I think those complementary colors are a big plus. With the head at this angle to the sun there’s just enough extra light on the face to make it “pop” (normally I dislike using that word in a photographic context but that’s another story…)\u00a0against that\u00a0background.<\/p>\n I love my primary bird lens (Canon EF500mmL IS II USM) for many reasons but near the top of that list is the quality of the\u00a0bokeh it produces. Bokeh is defined as “the visual quality of the out-of-focus areas of a photographic image, especially as rendered by a particular lens”. As I’ve said before, backgrounds can make or break an image and I like this one a lot.<\/p>\n That’s not to say the image has no flaws. If I had my “druthers” I’d have more depth of field to get the tail and the front of\u00a0the rock a\u00a0little sharper but then the background wouldn’t be quite as pleasingly soft as it is.<\/p>\n Tradeoffs…<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Complementary colors can make common species look uncommonly good.<\/p>\n