{"id":43865,"date":"2016-11-28T06:02:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=43865"},"modified":"2016-11-28T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T13:10:19","slug":"full-frame-barn-owl-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/full-frame-barn-owl-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Frame Barn Owl In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seldom get an image of a bird in flight that doesn’t need cropping for the best possible composition.<\/p>\n

Bird photographers will understand and even non-photographers\u00a0realize that most birds are twitchy, fidgety subjects – as you’re framing the shot\u00a0they’re usually moving around.\u00a0And birds are always wary of danger so they’re constantly changing the direction they’re looking and that also changes the\u00a0most desirable composition of the image. And as you can imagine, a bird in flight is even more difficult to frame properly as compared to a perched bird. Getting an image that can be presented full frame isn’t easy.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0complication is that you generally (though not always) want the bird to fill\u00a0a significant portion of the frame for good detail and intimacy. Getting the subject a preferred size in the uncropped frame is often easier if you’re using a zoom lens but those of us using fixed focal length (prime)\u00a0lenses don’t have that flexibility.<\/p>\n

Some may wonder why it’s considered desirable to get an image that doesn’t need cropping – just crop\u00a0the damn thing\u00a0and solve the problem! But keep in mind, every time you crop an image you lose pixels and pixels contain detail.\u00a0The more the image has been cropped the less\u00a0image quality and detail in the resulting\u00a0print, particularly if the print is a large one. Extreme crops can be likened to looking at an image in a newspaper or magazine\u00a0through a\u00a0magnifying glass or a microscope – all you see is dots with very little detail. In digital images those “dots” are pixels.<\/p>\n

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\"barn-owl-3735c-ron-dudley\"1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This Barn Owl, photographed at Bear River MBR last winter, is full frame (uncropped). I was able to avoid clipping wings and I like the placement of the bird in the frame. There’s a catch light in the right eye and I enjoy the background (mountains with snow) a lot. Head on flight shots aren’t everyone’s favorite but they certainly have a place in my portfolio.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong – it’s really no big deal if an image has to be cropped moderately to get a desirable composition. The vast majority of my images have been cropped. But bird photographers can’t help being a little extra pleased when they get an image they can present full frame.<\/p>\n

Especially if the bird’s in flight.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I seldom get an image of a bird in flight that doesn’t need cropping for the best possible composition.<\/p>\n

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