{"id":22023,"date":"2014-11-11T00:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=22023"},"modified":"2014-11-11T00:45:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:45:37","slug":"cormorant-and-other-fine-birds-at-falmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/cormorant-and-other-fine-birds-at-falmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormorant and other fine birds at Falmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A major thunderstorm passed across the South of England last night. Whether it’s coincidence or not, I don’t know; but a cormorant turned up at Falmer Pond this morning, and stayed for the day. It’s been a long time since one has pitched up at the pond, but it seemed set for the duration and was happily swimming up and down searching for fish.<\/p>\n

\"Cormorant<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cormorant<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Cormorant<\/a><\/p>\n

It was nice to have one of the more interesting species back at the pond, but the gulls were also putting on a good display. This is a juvenile herring gull taking off from the water. Tracking this kind of movement has become a whole lot easier with the 7D Mark II. It really is incredibly responsive.<\/p>\n

\"Herring<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Herring<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m really happy with the 7D Mark II, and am getting used to the multiple ways of setting up the autofocus. I sincerely doubt I’d have caught this final shot of a black-headed gull staring down the camera with the previous version.<\/p>\n

\"Black-headed<\/a><\/p>\n

The one irritation at the moment is that Lightroom won’t process the Raw files from the Mark II. No doubt an update will appear, but for the moment my work-flow has become: upload and sort in Digital Photo Pro v4.0; convert to TIF and download; upload TIFs to Lightroom; edit; download TIFs; upload TIFs to Photoshop; edit and convert to sRGB; download as JPG file. It’s slow, but it works!<\/p>\n

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

A major thunderstorm passed across the South of England last night. Whether it’s coincidence or not, I don’t know; but a cormorant turned up at Falmer Pond this morning, and stayed for the day. It’s been a long time since one has pitched up at the pond, but it seemed set for the duration and […]<\/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":[989],"tags":[378,449,1158],"class_list":["post-22023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-cormorant","tag-herring-gull","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