{"id":3356,"date":"2013-12-21T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2020-09-07T09:40:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:40:05","slug":"common-merganser-pans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/common-merganser-pans\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Merganser Pans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are tons of ducks out in the middle of Loch Raven Reservoir, mainly Common Mergansers.\u00a0\u00a0 Here I used a slow shutter speed (1\/30 sec), braced my elbows on my knees, and hammered down on the shutter while panning the camera trying to match their speed.\u00a0 The pic would be better if the couple ducks floating in the water weren&#8217;t there, so\u00a0 I cloned them out and also cleaned up the edges so there were no ducks cut in half (second image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3357\" data-lbwps-width=\"1100\" data-lbwps-height=\"655\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587.jpg\" data-lbwps-exif=\"&lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_camera&quot;&gt;Canon EOS-1D Mark IV&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_focal&quot;&gt;560mm&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_fstop&quot;&gt;\ud835\udc53\/16&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_shutter&quot;&gt;1\/30s&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_iso&quot;&gt;ISO100&lt;\/span&gt; \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3357 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587.jpg\" alt=\"131221_MAS2587\" width=\"1100\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-720x428.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3360\" data-lbwps-width=\"1100\" data-lbwps-height=\"655\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone.jpg\" data-lbwps-exif=\"&lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_camera&quot;&gt;Canon EOS-1D Mark IV&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_focal&quot;&gt;560mm&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_fstop&quot;&gt;\ud835\udc53\/16&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_shutter&quot;&gt;1\/30s&lt;\/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;pswp__caption__exif_iso&quot;&gt;ISO100&lt;\/span&gt; \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3360 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone.jpg\" alt=\"131221_MAS2587-clone\" width=\"1100\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/131221_MAS2587-clone-720x428.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are tons of ducks out in the middle of Loch Raven Reservoir, mainly Common Mergansers.\u00a0\u00a0 Here I used a slow shutter speed (1\/30 sec), braced my elbows on my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/common-merganser-pans\/\">Continue reading &#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common Merganser Pans<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ducks","tag-loch-raven-reservoir","ratio-3-2","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6259,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/6259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapspics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}