{"id":1042,"date":"2008-01-10T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1042"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:55:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:55:16","slug":"a-quick-catch-up-on-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-quick-catch-up-on-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick catch up on the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

It's been a quiet week here fox-wise (apart from Monday<\/a>), mainly due to plenty of wind and rain. Most nights I've resorted to photographing the newts (which are quite active at the moment… I saw three tonight), and the occasional frog. <\/p>\n

Underwater umbrella?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Big foot?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There are several more new newt shots in the Amphibians<\/a> album. <\/p>\n

There was a brief respite in the unremitting gloom yesterday. That brought out some of the more familiar birds:<\/p>\n

A very satisfied looking crow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

And a shy robin<\/span><\/a>
If you want to see a bold robin, take a look over here<\/a>! <\/p>\n

There was one surprise this week. I was out in the drizzle today, the light was terrible, but high in one of the trees I noticed a pair of birds which weren't familiar. Getting anything like a decent shot was tricky. Bad light and rain don't make things easy, but when there's no direct line of sight to the bird either… This was taken with the aperture wide open, and at ISO 1600. That gave me a reasonable shutter speed. It's not a great shot, but it is the first I've managed of a redwing. \ud83d\ude42 More about shooting at high ISO settings in this excellent tutorial<\/a>. I've clearly got some way to go yet! <\/p>\n

Redwing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On a completely different note you may have noticed some slight changes to the blog layout and other parts of the My Opera community site. Full details of the changes are detailed in the change log<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Camera note: birds photographed with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens; frog with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM; and the newt with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro + 44mm extension tube.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,86,1026],"tags":[33,41,165],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-frog","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-birds","tag-frogs","tag-newts","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}