{"id":20763,"date":"2014-05-24T00:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=20763"},"modified":"2014-05-24T00:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T23:02:36","slug":"swallows-and-blue-tits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/swallows-and-blue-tits\/","title":{"rendered":"Swallows and Blue Tits"},"content":{"rendered":"

A simple post today. The first three shots are swallows, but each is distinctive in its own way starting with this one of a swallow perched on a tree.<\/p>\n

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This is perhaps a more typical shot: a pair of swallows skimming low over water as they hunt for insects. <\/p>\n

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The third was intended to be like this, but I quite like the image. I’d be tracking the swallow but it moved into relatively deep shade as the shutter fired, resulting in a rapid loss of shutter speed. hence the motion blur.<\/p>\n

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The second sequence was taken early this evening in the garden. Some typically cute photos of a blue tit. The final shot proves that it’s possible to catch a take-off too early. Another fraction of a second and its wings would have opened (though it might have slipped out of frame by then).<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A simple post today. The first three shots are swallows, but each is distinctive in its own way starting with this one of a swallow perched on a tree. This is perhaps a more typical shot: a pair of swallows skimming low over water as they hunt for insects. The third was intended to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[45,1165],"class_list":["post-20763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-blue-tit","tag-swallow","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t