{"id":67423,"date":"2018-12-26T04:32:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T11:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=67423"},"modified":"2018-12-26T04:38:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T11:38:42","slug":"canada-geese-in-flight-with-a-snowy-mountain-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/26\/canada-geese-in-flight-with-a-snowy-mountain-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Geese In Flight With A Snowy Mountain Background"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize that\u00a0some folks aren’t big\u00a0fans of Canada Geese. But I’ve got’em, I shoot what’s available and if I like the photos I post’em.<\/p>\n

And I\u00a0like these.<\/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

A week ago today I had good late afternoon light at a local pond and was able to get quite a few photos of geese in flight. I’ll delete most of them because of problems with geese clustered too close together, backgrounds I don’t like or cut off body parts. What I really wanted was to catch them with the snowy Wasatch Mountains in the background but that’s harder than it might seem. They seldom\u00a0fly at the correct height to accomplish it and when they do I often have a less than desirable angle on the geese.<\/p>\n

But I caught this one at a good angle, I like the wing position, I have good detail and light in the eye and yes, that’s the mountains in the background. My primary nit to pick is that the bird’s too centered in the frame for my tastes but it was either that, or leave\u00a0the\u00a0tail of another goose in the frame at left\u00a0or clone out\u00a0the offending\u00a0tail.<\/p>\n

I chose this centered\u00a0composition as the lesser of three evils.<\/p>\n

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1\/1600, 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

Only seconds\u00a0earlier I caught two different geese in the same flock in flight poses I like. The mountains can be seen at the top of the frame but the brown at the bottom is out-of-focus trees growing near the pond.<\/p>\n

While processing this image I was a little surprised by the color difference between these two geese. It isn’t dramatic but it isn’t\u00a0particularly\u00a0subtle either. So I checked Cornell’s Birds of North America Online to see what they might say about any color variations in Canada Geese.<\/p>\n