{"id":81884,"date":"2020-02-17T05:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=81884"},"modified":"2020-02-17T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T20:50:07","slug":"monochrome-song-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/monochrome-song-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome Song Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feathered Photography is changing. It had to happen and I almost waited too long.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"81885\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/monochrome-song-sparrow\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,643\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"6.3","credit":"RON DUDLEY","camera":"Canon EOS 7D Mark II","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1581668227","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"song sparrow 0488 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81885 size-full\" title=\"song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/song-sparrow-0488-ron-dudley-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>1\/2000, 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<p>Three days ago at Farmington Bay WMA I had this Song Sparrow in my viewfinder for quite a while but for most of that time I wasn’t fond of the poses “he” struck. Usually they were head-on where I couldn’t see his tail and there were other issues too. But for 5 quick shots he turned his back to me and gave me this over-the-shoulder look in nice morning light. I just like the aesthetics of the image, including but not limited to the composition.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I refer to one of my images as being “monochromatic” someone usually challenges me about the label because they can see more than one color in the photo. But for me this image comes about as close to being truly monochromatic as color nature photography gets.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s one definition of monochrome photography:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>“<\/i><em>P<\/em><em>hotography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light, but not a different hue. It includes all forms of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing tones of neutral grey ranging from black to white. Other hues besides grey, such as sepia, cyan or brown can also be used in monochrome photography”<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So it seems to me that this image fits the definition pretty darn well, though perhaps not perfectly. But when it comes to artistic and aesthetic considerations I’m unquestionably a dummkopf so what say ye? I’m guessing it will depend on your definition of “hue”.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>By now you’ve probably noticed that Feathered Photography has a different look about it. That change became necessary because my previous blog theme, Atahaulpa, is old and was out of service and no longer being supported. Various functions were no longer working properly and my entire site could have crashed at any time.<\/p>\n<p>So yesterday I had to act fast and choose a new theme – Nirvana. Nirvana works and looks differently than Atahaulpa and you’re seeing many of those differences already. There’s still some tweaking to do and some kinks to work out.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s one of those kinks, potentially at least. When you comment the first time using this new theme you may or may not be prompted to fill in your name and email address. If you see that prompt you’ll probably also see a check box below it labeled “<em>Save my name, email, and site URL in my browser for next time I post a comment.<\/em>” If you check that box you shouldn’t have to fill in your contact info when you comment in the future. Time will tell if it works properly.<\/p>\n<p>We may still have tweaks to make and there will likely be other kinks to work out in the future (there always is in these situations). If you find something that isn’t working properly for you or is less convenient than Atahaulpa was or that you just don’t like please let me know in case it can be tweaked. It may or may not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>If you’re like me change is hard but together we’ll get through it.<\/p>\n<p>Ron<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><em>Notes<\/em><em>:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em> One thing drives me a little batty about the new theme. It’s small but annoying. If you’re on a desktop when you pass your cursor over the image the image file number appears – just like it used to which I like. But now when that happens the image loses contrast and temporarily becomes faded and dull. I guess I’ll get used to it…<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Please, please – let me know if some of my images occasionally fail to fully load for you – either on my home page or on individual posts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>One of the things I miss with this theme is my rotating banner. I thought we might be able to add it, but we can’t. It will continue to work on my home page but it won’t on individual posts.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Huge thanks to Mia for performing this theme transition for me. It’s a lot of work and I simply don’t have the tech savvy to do it myself.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feathered Photography is changing. 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