{"id":1576,"date":"2011-04-06T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2011-04-06T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T11:37:50","slug":"roseate-spoonbill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/roseate-spoonbill\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseate Spoonbill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roseate Spoonbill in Flight Blur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Normally I am not a big fan of blurred images. However this image struck me as an interesting blur. I enjoy this image as a blur, in part, because the background is almost completely black. We were photographing on this day in the rain, with overcast skies. You can also see a few drops of water coming off the feet of the bird which again is a cool effect on a dark background. I think if the background were blue or green, the blur effect would not be as pleasing and the pink of the bird would not stand out as well. If you are interested in creating “pleasing blurs”, Art Morris at Birds As Art<\/a><\/strong> and Denise Ippolito at A Creative Adventure<\/a><\/strong> have some really fantastic workshops and tutorials on doing so.<\/p>\n

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Roseate Spoonbill Preening<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the image above, I really like the color of the Roseate Spoonbill against the dark black water. This is actually how I saw the image, I did not intentionally “colorize” the image. That is a technique some photographers use but not one I employ on my wildlife images.<\/p>\n

Images captured by D700, 200-400 VRI w\/TCe 1.7 II on Lexar UDMA digital film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally I am not a big fan of blurred images. However this image struck me as an interesting blur. I enjoy this image as a blur, in part, because the background is almost completely black. We were photographing on this day in the rain, with overcast skies. You can also see a few drops of […]<\/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,"_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":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-education"],"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