{"id":60430,"date":"2018-06-21T04:32:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=60430"},"modified":"2018-06-21T04:32:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:32:56","slug":"cedar-waxwing-running-in-midair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/cedar-waxwing-running-in-midair\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Waxwing Running In Midair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least that’s what it looks like. A short post today\u00a0with\u00a0an image that\u00a0both amuses and frustrates me.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 500, 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 in the Wasatch Mountains I caught this Cedar Waxwing jumping from one perch to another. With its wings mostly closed and its feet in these positions it looks like it’s trying to run in midair, which of course it isn’t. It had simply pushed off the perch with its right foot with the other one in a forward, reaching\u00a0position. It made me smile the second I saw it but that smile was tempered when I looked at it more closely.<\/p>\n

I don’t know what I was thinking with a shutter speed of only 1\/2500 second. I nearly always try to get somewhere between 1\/3200 and 1\/5000 for little birds because they move so fast and I\u00a0love action shots. I believe that right foot is extremely soft mostly due to motion blur and I would have liked the image better if the foot were sharp.<\/p>\n

But if the entire bird were sharper I’d have liked\u00a0the image\u00a0better too. For some reason I got a lot of shots yesterday that weren’t as sharp as they should have been and this is one of them. That happens occasionally and it drives me bonkers when it does, especially\u00a0since most of my recent shots have been so sharp they almost cut my eyeballs.<\/p>\n

Last night I fiddled with settings on\u00a0both camera and lens, cleaned electrical\u00a0contacts and glass\u00a0and got my other 7D Mark II ready\u00a0to swap out with this one if I need to.\u00a0That might tell me if it’s an issue with camera or lens, depending on results.<\/p>\n

Hopefully it was only a temporary hiccup.\u00a0That’s happened before…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Or at least that’s what it looks like. A short post today with an image that both amuses and frustrates me.<\/p>\n

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