{"id":68923,"date":"2019-02-04T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=68923"},"modified":"2019-02-04T06:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T13:55:05","slug":"white-faced-ibis-landing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/white-faced-ibis-landing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"White-faced Ibis Landing Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I posted a single photo of a landing White-faced Ibis. Below is the entire six image series.<\/p>\n

All photos are presented in the order they were taken.<\/em><\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Six days ago I managed to keep focus mostly locked onto this ibis as it approached its intended landing spot in a bit of shallow liquid water among all the ice at Bear River MBR. The background in many of the photos may not be particularly attractive to some viewers but it’s the environment many birds live in this time of year. In most of the shots I was lucky to get flight postures that highlighted the iridescence of the ibis as compensation.<\/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<\/p>\n

This is the only one that’s a little soft but I’m including it to make the series more complete.<\/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<\/p>\n

This is the image I posted five days ago. I’m including it here for the same reason and because it just might be my favorite of the bunch.<\/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<\/p>\n

But I like this one too, even though the iridescence is less noticeable. The light and feather angles are just about perfect to define every individual feather on the left wing.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, 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<\/p>\n

I do wish I had a little more room at the bottom of the frame in some of these shots to give the ibis more room to fly into and possibly even show where it’s intending to land but this is preferable to clipped or cut off wings, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

The first five photos above are sequential without any skips but after this one, when the forward momentum of the bird suddenly diminished, there were three frames where I either clipped wings or the landing poses were so similar I left them out.<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, 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<\/p>\n

Here the ibis has just touched down into the shallow water as evidenced by the water boil caused by its large splayed feet hitting the surface.<\/p>\n

This is the only ibis landing series I’ve ever liked well enough to keep because given their typical preferred feeding habitat the close and contrasty backgrounds usually cause me to lose sharp focus on the bird. And this time I even had a good light angle and resulting significant iridescence as a bonus.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note to photographers: Sharp eyes may have noticed that rotation to level was a bit of an issue in some of these shots, for two reasons. Either there were no reliable cues as to what “level” actually was or rotating to level had more of a negative impact on the aesthetics of the image than not rotating at all (in my judgment).<\/em><\/p>\n

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Recently I posted a single photo of a landing White-faced Ibis. Below is the entire six image series.<\/p>\n

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