{"id":882,"date":"2014-12-13T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=882"},"modified":"2014-12-13T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:00:12","slug":"wood-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Wood Duck"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have wanted to see and photograph these beautiful birds ever since I knew of their existence. So, when I read that wood ducks like to hang out in Lithia Park in the winter I could hardly believe it. But I packed up the new camera anyway and headed right down there. I got out of the car to do a scouting trip and almost immediately did a 180 back to the car to get the camera because they were there.\u00a0 I shot a number of frames of ducks on shore before they got spooked and headed into the water. But that was OK because I really wanted a water shot. Well, easier said than done. The cloudy winter light was flat and in order to get a shutter speed fast enough to stop the motion of the swimming ducks (those puppies move fast!) I had to crank the ISO up to 1600. This one was a little noisy and dull out of the camera. So, I applied some noise reduction and clarity in Lightroom. Then took it into Nik CEP for detail and brightening.\u00a0 It still seemed a little off and I almost rejected this one for an onshore shot as image of the week.\u00a0 But then I decided to try one more thing and took it into Photoshop to add a little saturation and that did the trick.\u00a0 I’m still thinking to go back with the long lens and “big girl” camera as soon as we get a break in the weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have wanted to see and photograph these beautiful birds ever since I knew of their existence. So, when I read that wood ducks like to hang out in Lithia Park in the winter I could hardly believe it. But I packed up the new camera anyway and headed right down there. I got out… Continue reading Wood Duck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds","category-nature","category-nik","category-oregon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}