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<\/p>\nI can like photos of any bird species no matter how common and believe it or not I actually got\u00a0a flight shot\u00a0I like\u00a0yesterday, despite our inversion and gunky air.<\/p>\n
Yesterday morning after once again hoping for the miracle of having acceptable light and preparing to leave home in the morning twilight I had to pull the plug on\u00a0my plans and stay\u00a0grounded because of our persistent inversion and foul air. In late afternoon when I could finally faintly\u00a0see\u00a0that round orb in the sky formerly known as the sun I decided to try once again. But it was late and I didn’t have much time so I just made a quick trip to a local pond and got two shots I like of a Canada Goose.<\/p>\n
This is one of them.<\/p>\n
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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 The goose was floating in to alight on the pond. You’d have to know the pond to realize how lucky I was to get nothing in the background\u00a0but extremely out-of-focus\u00a0tree branches instead of buildings, milky-white skies or other geese behind or in front of this one. The light was partially filtered but there just enough to be adequate\u00a0and not so much that I got deep shadows on the goose.<\/p>\n The flight posture reminds me a little\u00a0of a gliding ski jumper or wingsuit flyer. And I’m always interested in seeing one or both alulae, even when it’s only partially extended as it is here on the right wing.<\/p>\n Regarding composition:<\/em> Part of me thinks I might have placed the goose a little too high in the frame when I cropped. But I didn’t want to center the bird in either dimension and I know it was descending when I took the photo so I went with this placement to give it room to fly into in the direction it was going. I’d probably do the same thing again but I’m not completely\u00a0convinced it’s the best choice.<\/p>\n Regarding Image techs:<\/em> And they were obviously inappropriate, especially shutter speed. This was pretty much a grab shot. The light was low and I had been shooting dark birds (mostly coots) on dark water so my camera settings were appropriate for\u00a0them but they weren’t for the unexpected goose in the brighter setting. To be honest I probably had time to change my settings for the goose but I had little hope of getting anything decent so I just got lazy. Bad habit.<\/p>\n I dunno. Maybe I wouldn’t have posted this photo if it hadn’t been so long since I’ve been able to get anything new. After all, some would say it’s “only a goose”.<\/p>\n But my subject has feathers, it’s wild and free, it wasn’t baited or set up and I like\u00a0the image.\u00a0That’s all I require.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can like photos of any bird species no matter how common and believe it or not I actually got a flight shot I like yesterday, despite our inversion and gunky air.<\/p>\n