{"id":54689,"date":"2017-12-17T04:58:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=54689"},"modified":"2017-12-17T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T12:15:13","slug":"canada-goose-running-on-water-including-differing-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/17\/canada-goose-running-on-water-including-differing-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Goose Running On Water (including differing perspectives)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m able to capture photos like these I realize that I don’t aim my lens at Canada Geese as often as I should.<\/p>\n

Three days ago I was at a local pond near my home in a desperate attempt to locate some interesting birds to photograph. Birds have been unusually slow around here lately but as winter finally begins\u00a0to set in numbers of Common Goldeneye and Pied-billed Grebes on the pond are increasing to complement the more common American Coots and the occasional flock of Canada Geese.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 was concentrating on goldeneye when I heard the familiar honking of geese already on the pond that often signals imminent takeoff.<\/p>\n

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1\/3200, 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<\/em><\/p>\n

These were grab shots made without making any camera adjustments for my new subject. Here I like the skimming flight over the water’s surface, the\u00a0monotones, the warm light, the flight posture and the water splash behind the bird that helps to tell the story of the goose taking off.<\/p>\n

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As I sometimes do I tried a different composition of the same image for another perspective. In this version the goose is smaller in the frame and even closer to the left frame edge but it includes more of the water splash which I like. I’m not sure which version I prefer but I enjoy seeing both.<\/p>\n

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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<\/em><\/p>\n

Two frames later I caught the goose in a running pose I\u00a0like very much because we see the actual source of the water splashes and I particularly\u00a0enjoy the way the almost\u00a0perfectly vertical right leg and\u00a0foot has barely penetrated the surface of the water. This old Montana farm boy isn’t sophisticated enough to know what it’s called but something tells me there’s likely a name for this dance position in ballet or perhaps even in modern dance.<\/p>\n

However this isn’t the image as I took it. I removed an out of focus coot at upper left.<\/p>\n

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So in the interest of full disclosure here’s the unaltered version of the image. Damn coots, sometimes I love’em and sometimes I cuss’em (usually it’s the former though…).<\/p>\n

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\"\"1\/3200, 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<\/em><\/p>\n

The lumbering and noisy goose did finally become airborne but there was a bright rock on the background that kind of ruined the image for me.<\/p>\n

This was what it looked like at the pond three days ago but things have changed since then.<\/p>\n

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1\/1250, 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<\/em><\/p>\n

This is what greeted us here in northern Utah yesterday –\u00a0overcast skies\u00a0and snow. The California Gulls on the pond were having a\u00a0hey-day pilfering\u00a0crayfish and fish\u00a0from unfortunate goldeneye and grebes. The gulls are highly skilled thieves and I often felt sorry for their victims but in better light their skirmishes would provide\u00a0interesting photo-ops that I\u00a0hope to pursue in the future.<\/p>\n

And next time I won’t be so blas\u00e9 about aiming my lens at\u00a0Canada Geese.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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When I’m able to capture photos like these I realize that I don’t aim my lens at Canada Geese as often as I should.<\/p>\n

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