{"id":90522,"date":"2020-10-19T05:29:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T11:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=90522"},"modified":"2020-10-19T06:31:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T12:31:42","slug":"immature-black-crowned-night-heron-in-flight-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/19\/immature-black-crowned-night-heron-in-flight-a-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Immature Black-crowned Night Heron In Flight – A Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was silly to have not posted this series three years ago when I took it.<\/p>\n

It’s a three image sequential series without any skips. To be honest I can’t remember if it was taken at Bear River MBR or Farmington Bay WMA but I suspect it was the former.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

I’m not sure why I haven’t posted it before. Maybe it was because the heron is side lit with little direct light on the face but the colorful left eye is easily seen and what little of the right eye we can see is nicely lit. The bird is sharp in all three shots and I like the background very much so why I apparently skipped over these photos is a mystery to me.<\/p>\n

I forgot all about them until last night when I found them by chance.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

One of my many little idiosyncrasies (weirdnesses?) with sequential flight series is that I like to follow the movement of background elements in the frame as an indicator of how far the bird has traveled in the 1\/10th of a second between shots in the burst. Here the brightest yellow vertical and out of focus stem on the shore in the background (probably a dead phragmites stem) can easily be followed in all three photos.<\/p>\n

Notice the water droplets about to fall from the heron’s feet.<\/p>\n

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1\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 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

I caught them falling in the last photo.<\/p>\n

Little things like that catch my eye and I think they often add to both the realism and the charm of my images. But depending on what they are they can also distract. An example would be the out of focus McDonald’s Golden Arches at upper left. They’re subtle but they’re there.<\/p>\n

Once I saw them I couldn’t unsee them.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I was silly to have not posted this series three years ago.<\/p>\n

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