{"id":40075,"date":"2016-06-13T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=40075"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T14:31:41","slug":"fledgling-short-eared-owl-wing-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/13\/fledgling-short-eared-owl-wing-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fledgling Short-eared Owl Wing Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I continue to make the occasional\u00a0rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two weeks ago while I was photographing this fledgling Short-eared Owl perched on tumbleweeds next to a road in northern Utah the cute little feller began to perform a slow and languishing wing stretch. I was shooting with my zoom lens so as the wings began to creep near the\u00a0edge of the frame all I had to do was zoom back a little\u00a0to keep from clipping them.<\/p>\n

But dammit, I forgot which lens I was using! Most of my shooting\u00a0is with my 500mm prime lens which of course has no zoom capability and my “muscle memory”\u00a0apparently thought that was the lens I was using so I made no attempt at zooming back and barely clipped the wings in all of the\u00a0photos with the wings fully extended.<\/p>\n

I still\u00a0enjoy the\u00a0image but I’d have liked it better if I hadn’t clipped the wing tip.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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

1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D, Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @ 400mm, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But as the youngster pulled its wings back in it raised its head a little and gave me direct eye contact and as a result I like this image better anyway. And even though the setting’s a little busy I like the contrast between the lushness of the green vegetation in the background and the dead tumbleweed perch in the foreground.<\/p>\n

I’m still slightly aghast that I forgot which lens I was using. Usually my “creature of habit” tendencies serve me well as a photographer\u00a0but this time they bit me in the butt.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to make the occasional rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/span><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,334,356],"tags":[689,2984,145,279,511,2924,311,937],"class_list":["post-40075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-photography-methods","category-birds","category-short-eared-owls","tag-box-elder-county","tag-clipped-body-parts","tag-fledgling","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-stretching","tag-tumbleweeds","tag-utah-2","tag-zoom-lens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/short-eared-owl-1337-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-aqn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}