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<\/p>\nIt’s the third photo in this series\u00a0that I like so much – mostly because\u00a0anything like it has been so damned hard to get with these little speedsters.<\/p>\n
Regular readers know I like action shots. I usually have my settings adjusted so I have more than enough shutter speed to freeze the wings of even the smallest, speediest birds. It doesn’t pay off very often and even when it does the results are usually on a continuum from mediocre to very good and the former usually predominates. So when I get an action\u00a0shot that pleases me it’s quite rewarding.<\/p>\n
There’s often a tradeoff for those high\u00a0shutter speeds of course – slightly reduced image quality because of the high ISO’s usually required to get them.\u00a0But I’m\u00a0more than willing to pay that price – good, bad or indifferent it’s just my style.<\/p>\n
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1\/6400, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 Yesterday afternoon I spent some time at the “warbler tree” again and found this one on one of those rare perches with a relatively clean background. Here the bird is looking out over the water for flying insects. When they spot one and take off after it I’m always trying to get takeoff shots but these very small birds are so\u00a0incredibly quick that\u00a0human reflexes just aren’t fast enough to get them in frame when they’re close enough for good detail.<\/p>\n But occasionally I get lucky.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/8000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 time the bird spotted a bug that was directly overhead<\/em> – which meant it had to angle its head upward to follow it. That was a behavioral cue for me that it might be about to take off after the bug so I fired off a quick burst…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/8000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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 and caught the warbler launching vertically. There’s enough light under the wings for pretty good detail, I was close enough to the bird so this is not a large crop and I even got a catch light in the eye\u00a0with the head at this unusual angle.<\/p>\n There were a couple of blurry twigs in the upper left corner that I found quite distracting so I reluctantly removed them but I’ve left them in the previous image so viewers can see most of what I removed.<\/p>\n It’s very possible that I like this image more than most others will but for me “degree of difficulty” often plays a role in my appreciation of my own photos. After hundreds of recent attempts at getting a shot like this it felt good to finally succeed.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n Note to photographers: These warblers are so darned fast that I’ve found 1\/3200 sec to be too slow of a shutter speed to freeze their wings. 1\/5000 probably would have done it but with this bird I had a little extra wiggle room for insurance. Better too much than too little…\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the third photo in this series that I like so much – mostly because anything like it has been so damned hard to get with these little speedsters.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/yellow-rumped-warbler-8852-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"yellow-rumped-warbler-8852-ron-dudley\\"")
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