{"id":23162,"date":"2015-03-30T23:16:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2015-03-30T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T22:19:10","slug":"portraits-of-a-dunnock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/portraits-of-a-dunnock\/","title":{"rendered":"Portraits of a Dunnock"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was really pleased with these two photos of dunnock, taken today at the edge of Falmer Pond. Dunnocks are very plain birds, so getting a slightly dreamlike portrait wasn’t what I would normally set out to do. This one was being ultra bold and was perched just above the water. I took a number of shots through the branches, but all of them were marred by branches across the face and wings. The only clear angle I could get was by getting down low and partially shooting through the foliage. At least though, its face was clear, and that was the main thing I wanted.<\/p>\n

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Two other shots from today to go with that pair, both scoring on the cuteness scale. First is a muddy chiffchaff. It was hanging around near where I photographed the dunnock, perching briefly before flying down to the muddy bank of the pond.<\/p>\n

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Last, a baby rabbit. There were several of them hopping about at the edge of the churchyard, but as with the dunnock getting a clean shot was not easy. In fact I didn’t, and this one has been cleaned up a little in photoshop.<\/p>\n

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

I was really pleased with these two photos of dunnock, taken today at the edge of Falmer Pond. Dunnocks are very plain birds, so getting a slightly dreamlike portrait wasn’t what I would normally set out to do. This one was being ultra bold and was perched just above the water. I took a number […]<\/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":[980,8],"tags":[183,163,1130],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-rabbit","tag-chiffchaff","tag-dunnock","tag-rabbit","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