{"id":39733,"date":"2016-05-26T04:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T10:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=39733"},"modified":"2024-09-02T05:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:05:30","slug":"low-light-female-short-eared-owl-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/05\/26\/low-light-female-short-eared-owl-blur\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Light Female Short-eared Owl Blur"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FemaleFemale Short-eared Owl Blur – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/80, ISO 400, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the sun came up three days ago and before I photographed the Short-eared Owls chicks<\/span><\/a> I had an opportunity to photograph a female owl perched on a fence post. I wasn’t even prepared to photograph yet, I didn’t have my Noodle on the window.<\/p>\n

I had left my camera set on my default ISO of 400 which I knew would give me very slow shutter speeds in the low light but I didn’t know if she would fly away so I took a chance that I might get a few sharp images or maybe even a blurry one that I liked.<\/p>\n

I was only able to take 35 images of the female Short-eared Owl before she took off and once I hit the shutter button I didn’t stop to raise my ISO to increase my shutter speed because she was rousing and I didn’t want to miss that.<\/p>\n

Once she flew off and the sun came up I almost forgot about the very early shots of her until I loaded the files onto my hard drive and started viewing them. I was right, some of the images of her were a mess but when I got to this frame I just had to laugh.<\/p>\n

Her head and face were sharp, the perch was sharp but everything between her head and the post was a twisty blur. I still can’t figure out how she kept her head still while she shook and roused so vigorously.<\/p>\n

I know that blurs aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but I have grown quite fond of this beautiful, shaking, Short-eared Owl blur.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good, it is even better with laughter.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Short-eared Owl photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that blurs aren’t everyone’s cup of tea but I have grown quite fond of this beautiful, shaking, Short-eared Owl blur. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,1148,130,26],"tags":[4004,4114,2663,4042,4098,4070,156,3967,294,11852,3199,4502,3971,165],"class_list":["post-39733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-short-eared-owls","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-asio-flammeus","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-blur","tag-desert","tag-female","tag-low-light-2","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-ranchlands","tag-rousing","tag-shaking","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-spring"],"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\n\t\t\n\t\t