Comments on: My Love Affair with Pacific-race Brown Pelicans. Announcing the 2018 San Diego #2 IPT: Shorter and Less Expensive. https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/10/my-love-affair-with-pacific-race-brown-pelicans-announcing-the-2018-san-diego-2-ipt-shorter-and-less-expensive/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 By: Jake https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/10/my-love-affair-with-pacific-race-brown-pelicans-announcing-the-2018-san-diego-2-ipt-shorter-and-less-expensive/comment-page-1/#comment-1752053 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:11:50 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=50741#comment-1752053 Hi Artie,
The background looks smoother to me in image #1 (even though you were further away) this is because you were at f6.3 rather than f13 in image #2. I think that you stopped down to f13 for image #2 because; you were closer, you wanted to keep the eyes and the closer wing feather detail in sharp focus and there was a bigger distance from the front to the back of the bird. I think that it is the same bird because of the black speck in the lower right of the eye (but as far as I know this could be a common feature of all breeding plumage birds). I prefer image #2 (even though the background is less clean) because of the shape the bird’s neck has made, I also love the amazing feather detail that is less noticeable in image #1, I also like the contrast between the (lovely) background and the bird in both images.
Jake

]]> By: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2017/10/10/my-love-affair-with-pacific-race-brown-pelicans-announcing-the-2018-san-diego-2-ipt-shorter-and-less-expensive/comment-page-1/#comment-1752050 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 16:35:36 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=50741#comment-1752050 In reply to Todd Bendt.

Hey Todd, Good stuff. Thanks for playing.

with love, artie

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