{"id":35594,"date":"2015-12-05T06:04:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=35594"},"modified":"2015-12-05T06:20:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T13:20:31","slug":"a-high-key-flicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/a-high-key-flicker\/","title":{"rendered":"A High-key Flicker"},"content":{"rendered":"

“High-key” images have a predominance of light or bright tones which in this case\u00a0were provided by an ice and snow-covered pond in the background.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The pond was Glover Pond in Farmington, Utah and the subject was a nervous adult male Northern Flicker (images taken 6 days ago). I can seldom get close to flickers but I believe this bird was torn between flight to escape my approaching pickup and wanting to remain close to yet another flicker in a small tree just a few feet out of frame to the left. For the moment the bird chose to remain on the post.<\/p>\n

I’m not a fan of high-key backgrounds when they’re caused by white clouds – they’re usually\u00a0just too bright and white for my tastes. But there’s enough blueish tone in this ice and snow to make these images palatable for me.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Naturally I only had a few seconds with this bird before another vehicle approached so the flicker turned and crouched slightly as it prepared to take off. I didn’t have enough time to adjust camera settings for flight and I needed to, especially since I was quite close to the bird (with my smaller lens) and the lighting was tricky\u00a0so I didn’t have high hopes for any take-off shots I might get. \u00a0And I was right.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I didn’t have quite enough shutter speed or depth of field to get the left wing sharp and the lighting on different parts of the bird was highly variable so I had to make more exposure adjustments on this image during processing than I like to.<\/p>\n

Even after all that the photo still\u00a0isn’t a great one but I do think it’s quite interesting visually. This is one of the few bird images I\u00a0can think of where my attention\u00a0isn’t first drawn to the face and eye. Instead it goes to those amazing colors on the wing and tail that we normally don’t see in the perched bird.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

PS – the band of color at the top of the last image is the back edge of the pond.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“High-key” images have a predominance of light or bright tones which in this case were provided by an ice and snow covered pond in the background.<\/p>\n

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