{"id":51065,"date":"2017-08-25T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T10:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=51065"},"modified":"2017-08-25T04:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T10:53:32","slug":"three-image-sequence-of-a-forsters-tern-just-after-emerging-with-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/three-image-sequence-of-a-forsters-tern-just-after-emerging-with-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Image Sequence Of A Forster’s Tern Just After Emerging With A Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any photography skills I may have were definitely tested yesterday morning as I attempted to photograph terns coming out of the water with fish. Ideally I’d like to get them diving into<\/em> the water and then coming out\u00a0but I’ve found\u00a0the former\u00a0damn near impossible to\u00a0accomplish so my more realistic\u00a0goal was to\u00a0get them emerging with a fish. I succeeded\u00a0a few times but most of those images had issues.<\/p>\n

But I was\u00a0reasonably happy with some of my shots taken very\u00a0soon after<\/em> they came out of the water and these are three of them –\u00a0they’re sequential images of the same bird taken in a burst.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

This Forster’s Tern going out of breeding plumage had emerged from the water with\u00a0a fish\u00a0less than\u00a0a second before the image was taken – the tern is still very close to the water surface and there’s water droplets coming off of its body. This\u00a0might have been a fun photo\u00a0to have included a\u00a0full\u00a0reflection of the bird but it just didn’t happen.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the things I appreciate about this sequence is the completely different wing positions in all three shots and I like each of them. The\u00a0bird went from “wings forward” in the first photo to “wings\u00a0lateral” in this shot and finally to…<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

“wings up” in this last image. So often when I get reasonably sharp images like these in a sequence of a bird in flight some of the wing positions are nearly identical and that’s usually unfortunate.<\/p>\n

I wish I could tell you what species of fish this is but I can’t with any confidence. My guess would be carp just because they’re the predominant fish in many of our marshes but there are a few others including some invasives so I’ll just leave it hanging.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Any photography skills I may have were definitely tested yesterday morning as I attempted to photograph terns coming out of the water with fish.<\/p>\n

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