{"id":7351,"date":"2017-02-13T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=7351"},"modified":"2017-02-13T23:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:14:18","slug":"ducks-in-the-south-platte-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/13\/ducks-in-the-south-platte-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks In The South Platte River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most modern cameras have some form of auto-focus capability. One feature of my cameras is the ability to track moving subjects, attempting to maintain focus. Over the last two weekends, I decided to try out how this works. It took a couple of days to figure out that I had a lot to learn! After a couple of attempts, I discovered that the AF-C function was not enabled. Consulting some You Tube videos, I learned how to set this up. On Saturday, I made some images along the South Platte River to get the feel of the focus tracking.<\/p>\n

Mallards and Canada Geese were the most common birds along the river. In this image, I did not really need to use focus tracking, but I did nail the focus on male duck from this pair of Mallards.<\/p>\n

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Mallard And Mate, Platte River<\/p><\/div>\n

On the previous weekend, several Mallards were exercising their wings while paddling in the river. I spent a long time waiting for the Mallards in the river to repeat the movement this weekend. There was only one Mallard that performed this movement and I was lucky enough to capture the following image.<\/p>\n

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Mallard Stretching Wings, Platte River<\/p><\/div>\n

I was particularly pleased with this second image of a male Mallard. Neither image really exercised the focus tracking, but I got to exercise some new skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most modern cameras have some form of auto-focus capability. One feature of my cameras is the ability to track moving subjects, attempting to maintain focus. Over the last two weekends, I decided to try out how this works. It took a couple of days to figure out that I had a lot to learn! After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1346,307,502,1347,529,25,1020],"class_list":["post-7351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-auto-focus","tag-ducks","tag-focus","tag-focus-tracking","tag-mallard","tag-river","tag-south-platte"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t