{"id":55737,"date":"2018-01-13T06:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=55737"},"modified":"2018-01-13T06:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:09:48","slug":"common-goldeneye-wing-flap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/common-goldeneye-wing-flap\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Goldeneye Wing Flap"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>Today&#8217;s post is an abbreviated one. Computer related problems that could potentially be\u00a0a big deal for me have demanded my attention and my time.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few Common Goldeneyes including adult males, adult females and 1st winter birds of both sexes have been wintering on a pond near my home. They&#8217;re quite wary and in order to keep their distance from fishermen and others\u00a0along the shore they spend most of their time in the center of the pond so close-up photos of them don&#8217;t come easy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"55738\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/common-goldeneye-wing-flap\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1514739304&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"common goldeneye 3583 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55738 size-full\" title=\"common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/8000, f\/5.6, 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<p>But when an individual bird feels the need to forage for food nearer the shore\u00a0they occasionally provide better opportunities. Two weeks ago on New Year&#8217;s Eve\u00a0this adult male was doing exactly that when he rose up on the water and performed a wing flap in good light and at a perfect angle to me. I particularly like the pose and the green iridescence on his head that so often eludes me. I have far more shutter speed than I needed but just prior to this performance\u00a0I had been photographing other birds in different lighting so I didn&#8217;t have time or opportunity to make any camera adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>While staring at\u00a0the\u00a0photo as I\u00a0compose the text for this post I notice that I made an error during processing &#8211; hate it when I do that!\u00a0Can you spot my mistake?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The water surface isn&#8217;t quite\u00a0level so I should have rotated the image clockwise to make it level. At this point I don&#8217;t have time to reprocess the image and correct my error\u00a0so it&#8217;ll just have to be a learning experience for me (and perhaps for some of my readers).<\/p>\n<p>My attempt at making lemonade out of a lemon&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Common Goldeneyes including adult males, adult females and 1st winter birds of both sexes have been wintering near my home<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/common-goldeneye-wing-flap\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55738,"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":[6,334,376],"tags":[2847,91,3487,211,282,739],"class_list":["post-55737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bird-photography-methods","category-birds","category-common-goldeneyes","tag-bucephala-clangula","tag-common-goldeneye","tag-image-processing","tag-male","tag-shutter-speed","tag-wing-flap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/common-goldeneye-3583-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-euZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55737","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=55737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}