Duckwing Photography: Lacy Duckwing's Photography Thread

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Fall photo shoot! I was coming home one day and rode by the neighborhood field and thought everything was so pretty... and perfect for a photo shoot with the birds. I've been looking for opportunities to take my RIR, Red, and my (Black Star?) Jamaica out, so I took them, and then I grabbed my Lavender Orpington, Sapphire, because I knew she wouldn't fail me if the other two did.

To warm up (and also to avoid early frustration should my birds of focus not cooperate), I went with Sapphire first. She did really good, like I knew she would. Here's her pictures:

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Next was Red. This would be her second off-farm photo shoot, and she did a lot better than she did last time. Here's her pictures:

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My favorite photo from the whole photo shoot:
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Lastly was Jamaica. This photo shoot was taken during Golden Hour, and I was quickly losing the sun, so her photo shoot was both limited and short. She also did not cooperate as good as the other two, so getting a good picture of her was harder. Here's her pictures:

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I hope you all enjoyed this photo shoot as much as I did!

~Lacy Duckwing
Duckwing Photography

Your photos (and hens) are beautiful!

How do you get them to stay still? mine would run the minute I put them down!

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Your photos (and hens) are beautiful!

How do you get them to stay still? mine would run the minute I put them down!

Thank you!

They don't, lol. Some do work better than others, like Red and Sapphire. For Sapphire, she was entertained by simply eating the new grasses and everything else she found. On most of the pictures I got of her looking up, it was either her looking around for possible dangers or trying to figure out the sounds I was making to get her to look up. Red was more of slowly exploring, so that made her easy as well, plus I was able to capture more photos of her head up (but more of her walking away). On Jamaica, she didn't cooperate at all. Once she got a quick view of everything, she was on the move toward every place I didn't want her to go. (Hense why there's not as many pictures of her as the others.)

For photo shoots like this, it's usually best to pick your calmer, more people-friendly chickens as they're easier to work with. (This isn't always the case though. I've had plenty of hens who insist on standing on top of me while I photograph.) If you have the right setup though, I believe any chicken could be worked with. Like with Jamaica, if I had brought her there for the morning Golden Hour instead of the evening, where I would have had more sunlight to work with, plus was using my bigger camera lens, then I think I could have gotten as equally many good pictures as with the others.