{"id":53504,"date":"2017-11-14T03:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=53504"},"modified":"2017-11-14T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T10:54:21","slug":"chukar-calling-in-warm-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/chukar-calling-in-warm-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar Calling In Warm Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are\u00a0many things I like about this shot and only one I don&#8217;t.\u00a0A ratio that good doesn&#8217;t happen often enough\u00a0with this bird photographer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"53505\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/chukar-calling-in-warm-light\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1308746316&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chukar 0233 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53505 size-full\" title=\"chukar-0233-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/1250, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS\u00a0USM + EF, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is an older image of a calling Chukar on Antelope Island. The photo was taken in June and that time of year Chukars\u00a0are often calling from elevated perches and on the island that usually means boulders and smaller rocks.<\/p>\n<p>For my tastes this\u00a0photo has a lot going for it.\u00a0Following is what\u00a0I like about the image:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This calling pose is significantly more interesting\u00a0than a static shot of a perched bird with no behavior involved.<\/li>\n<li>The light is warm and soft. The photo was taken at 6:38 AM very soon after I arrived on the island. I love this kind of light for many reasons, among them the fact that it softens the glaring whiteness of these Tintic Quartzite boulders that predominate on the north end of the island that Chukars like to perch on and call from.<\/li>\n<li>The lovely and soft background bokeh, especially with those\u00a0out of focus\u00a0yellow flowers partially framing the bird.<\/li>\n<li>The Chukar is sharp and sidelit just enough to add some\u00a0shading to its back which I think contributes to the strengths of the image. If the sun had been directly behind me\u00a0I don&#8217;t believe the\u00a0photo would appeal to me as much as it does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t like\u00a0(you knew I&#8217;d have a nit to pick).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">For me the bird is just a little too tight up top &#8211; it just feels slightly\u00a0crowded\u00a0up there so I wish I had a few more\u00a0pixels in that direction. But\u00a0the photo is full frame vertically and cropped only slightly horizontally (as presented this version is 83.5% of the original image) so I&#8217;ll just\u00a0live with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In this case it would be a simple matter to add more canvas\u00a0at the top of the frame\u00a0but I just don&#8217;t like to do that. I&#8217;ve done it before (with disclosure of course)\u00a0and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be seduced into doing it again but I resist the temptation\u00a0when I can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s many things I like about this shot and only one I don&#8217;t. A ratio that good doesn&#8217;t happen often enough with this bird photographer.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/chukar-calling-in-warm-light\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53505,"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":[3,6,334,352],"tags":[2192,26,31,1102,82,916,1422,1961,305,317],"class_list":["post-53504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-bird-photography-methods","category-birds","category-chukars","tag-adding-canvas","tag-alectoris-chukar","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-calling","tag-chukar","tag-composition","tag-flowers","tag-sidelight","tag-tintic-quartzite","tag-warm-light"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chukar-0233-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-dUY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504","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=53504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}