{"id":70434,"date":"2019-03-28T06:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=70434"},"modified":"2019-03-28T07:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T13:40:27","slug":"chukar-calling-on-one-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/chukar-calling-on-one-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Chukar Calling On One Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the simplicity and the elegance of the image.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"70441\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/chukar-calling-on-one-leg\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;7.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RON DUDLEY&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1393749860&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;500&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chukar 4753c ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70441 size-full\" title=\"chukar-4753c-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley-400x286.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a photo from my archives I&#8217;ve never posted before, taken in March five years ago on Antelope Island. It&#8217;s the time of year when Chukars regularly call from elevated rock perches and this one wasn&#8217;t shy about it, allowing me a close approach.<\/p>\n<p>For my tastes there&#8217;s several things that come together to make this a quality image with viewer appeal including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>his one-legged stance while calling<\/li>\n<li>the rocky perch with a clean and pleasing background behind the bird<\/li>\n<li>both chukar and perch are sharp<\/li>\n<li>the partial sidelight lit up the important parts of the bird well but it also produced some pleasing natural shadows that still include detail<\/li>\n<li>I think the softly focused rabbitbrush at lower right adds an interesting artistic touch to the background<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did make one selective adjustment to the image during processing. I thought the perch was just a little bit bright so I selectively reduced its exposure slightly. A sharp eye might notice a slightly annoying artifact of that selective exposure adjustment that I couldn&#8217;t get rid of but I&#8217;m not going to worry about it, nor am I going to point it out&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On my last several trips to the island I&#8217;ve finally been seeing a few more Chukars. They&#8217;ve mostly been in seclusion for months now but breeding season should make them more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>So the next time I post an image of a Chukar maybe I won&#8217;t have to go back into my archives.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the simplicity and the elegance of the image.<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/chukar-calling-on-one-leg\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70441,"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":[3,334,352],"tags":[26,31,1102,82],"class_list":["post-70434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island","category-birds","category-chukars","tag-alectoris-chukar","tag-antelope-island-2","tag-calling","tag-chukar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/chukar-4753c-ron-dudley.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-ik2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70434","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=70434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}