{"id":7059,"date":"2013-01-09T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:45:42","slug":"roseate-spoonbills-in-a-sea-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/01\/09\/roseate-spoonbills-in-a-sea-fog\/","title":{"rendered":"Roseate Spoonbills In A Sea Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RoseateRoseate Spoonbills in a sea fog – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1\/180, ISO 400, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 250mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

One very foggy May morning I came across a small flock of Roseate Spoonbills in a tidal lagoon at Fort De Soto’s north beach and photograph them for about 15 minutes before they flew off to find food.<\/p>\n

The fog muffled the sounds of the waves of the Gulf of Mexico rushing onto the shore just beyond the sand dunes you can see behind these two birds and the fog felt great on my skin that very warm morning.<\/p>\n

The adult Roseates were mostly resting but the juvenile pictured above began to preen while I laid in the tidal mud\u00a0observing and photographing these large, pink wading birds.<\/p>\n

\"Juvenile<\/p>\n

Juvenile Roseate Spoonbill preening in a sea fog – Nikon D200, handheld, f7.1, 1\/180, ISO 400, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 250mm, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographing in fog presents challenges in determining exposure, aperture, shutter speed and ISO.<\/p>\n

For this image I used a lower ISO because I wanted as much detail as I could achieve and while that gave me a \u00a0low shutter speed the juvenile Roseate wasn’t moving quickly and that helped to get sharp images.<\/p>\n

This image did have a small amount of Noise Reduction applied to everything except the preening juvenile Roseate Spoonbill to smooth out some of the noise I could detect prior to post processing.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

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

One very foggy May morning I came across a small flock of Roseate Spoonbills in a tidal lagoon at Fort De Soto’s north beach and photograph them for about 15 minutes before they flew off to find food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,704,2000,177],"tags":[4004,4021,4175,4067,3997,156,3980,4266,1481,24,4065,4811,165,313],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-fort-de-soto-county-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","category-roseate-spoonbills","tag-adult","tag-bird-photography","tag-fog","tag-immature","tag-lagoon","tag-low-light-2","tag-pinellas-county","tag-platalea-ajaja","tag-roseate-spoonbill","tag-sand-dune","tag-sea-fog","tag-spoonbills","tag-spring","tag-wading-birds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/roseate-spoonbill-fog-low-light-mia-mcpherson-8668.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1PR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14443,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/02\/25\/roseate-spoonbills-on-a-foggy-florida-morning\/","url_meta":{"origin":7059,"position":0},"title":"Roseate Spoonbills On A Foggy Florida Morning","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"February 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As soon as I crossed the north beach footbridge I spotted several Roseate Spoonbills in the tidal lagoon on my right. 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