{"id":43004,"date":"2026-07-05T11:13:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=43004"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:13:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:13:30","slug":"feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2026\/07\/05\/feather\/","title":{"rendered":"Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deposited in my front yard.<\/I><\/p>\n


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This was formerly the property of a Great Horned Owl – the one with ‘ear’ tufts. The bird can be heard – and occasionally seen – at dusk in my neighborhood.<\/p>\n

I used just one strobe to transilluminate the feather from the rear with a reflector next to the lens to confer some front lighting.<\/p>\n

Leica SL2S, 135mm El Nikkor at f\/16, Nikon PB4 bellows, ISO200, 1 strobe. 9 images focus stacked in Helicon Focus. The ‘floating in air’ effect was obtained by inserting a thin bamboo stick into the base of the feather and subsequently removing it in post. Take a look at the large version, by clicking the image above, and you will see that the El Nikkor enlarging lens does not disappoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deposited in my front yard. Click the image for a larger version. This was formerly the property of a Great Horned Owl – the one with ‘ear’ tufts. The bird can be heard – and occasionally seen – at dusk in my neighborhood. I used just one strobe to transilluminate the feather from the rear … Continue reading Feather<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leica","category-macro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43007,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43004\/revisions\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}