{"id":1173,"date":"2011-01-21T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2011-01-21T07:19:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T12:19:49","slug":"bufflehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/bufflehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bufflehead"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been a week of firsts for my image files. Unfortunately non of the firsts were files I would consider keepers. So goes the life of a photographer. <\/p>\n

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Bufflehead Drake and Hen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The difficulty in photographing Bufflehead is the location of the eye in relation to their dark feathers. You truly need to “catch light” (pun intended) in their eyes in order to tell they even have eyes!
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Bufflehead Drake Catch Light<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

The other thing to try and do is show the different color reflections their feathers emit as the light hits them from different directions. In the image above you can tell that the drakes feathers are emitting a green tint given the light angle. <\/p>\n

The real trick is to be able to show all these things and not end up with a butt shot!
\nHave a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been a week of firsts for my image files. Unfortunately non of the firsts were files I would consider keepers. So goes the life of a photographer. The difficulty in photographing Bufflehead is the location of the eye in relation to their dark feathers. You truly need to “catch light” (pun intended) in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t