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Movement
Photographer: Ray Hennessy
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5 Seconds • f/4.8 • ISO 64 • Nikon Z9 • 180mm • Nikon Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6
For years now during my Newfoundland seabirds workshop I've always taken a similar photo like this. In the past however I've always just shoved my camera into a rock crack and done my best to hold it still while I took a long exposure with the aperture cranked up to F-who-knows-what to get the longer exposure. This year however I came prepared. I brought out a tripod and a variable ND filter and I was able to take this version with a 5 second long exposure, at least double what I've done in the past. I was also able to shoot at a normal aperture that wasn't ruining the sharpness of the photo. So here I present the an image that is exactly what I've been after for years but only finally captured properly. I love what the waves do on the rocks below and how still many of these Common Murre stay during a 5 second exposure!
King of the Rock
Photographer: Ray Hennessy
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1/2000 • f/4 • ISO 400 • Nikon Z9 • 24mm • Nikon Z 24-120mm f/4 S
My goal during my 4 mornings spent with Canyon Wrens in Arches National Park was to show off the unique and stunning habitat they live in there. This is one of the shots I feel like I achieved that goal with. This bird popped up on this huge rock right next to me and surprised me. I quickly had to line the bird up with something that worked so I went with this placement as it was the brightest spot where I didn't have to move too much. It wasn't my initial choice for placement and so after this shot I dipped a bit lower and placed the bird in the sky. It turned out doing that hid more of the landscape than I had hoped and this composition ended up being better. So in the end the bird helped me make a better composition.
