Wood Stork Sunset Panoramas

I am going through images from previous trips to some of our trips to Florida. Here are a few panoramas of Wood Storks I photographed from the Wildlife Drive at J. N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. I was using a Sigma 300-800mm f/ 5.6 lens, all @ 800mm. The Wood Storks did not move around to much, but the ducks were constantly moving about.

I first tried a 5 image panorama which is the featured image. Because they were moving around somewhat I manually aligned the images and used soft-edge masks to blend the images for the final image. Then I photographed a 3 image version again at 800mm.

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Single image from 5 img panorama, Wood Storks @ 800mm

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3 images panorama @ 800mm

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Single image shot @ 318mm showing group of Wood Storks. Sigma 300-800mm f/5.6 lens

9 Comments on “Wood Stork Sunset Panoramas”

belindagroverphotography
March 18, 2020

Very nice, Reed! Wood Storks always look a little gloomy to me. 😏

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- Reed Andariese
  March 18, 2020
  
  Thanks Belinda! Yes they do seem gloomy or sort of prehistoric!
  
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Steve Gingold
March 18, 2020

Bunch of tough guys hangin’ out. Must be funny to watch the ducks swimming around between their legs.

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- Reed Andariese
  March 18, 2020
  
  Yes! They do seem a little rough! The ducks did just swim all around them.
  
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Eliza Waters
March 18, 2020

Looks like they are practicing ‘social distancing.’ 😉

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- Reed Andariese
  March 19, 2020
  
  Yes! They were ahead of our times!!
  
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  - Eliza Waters
    March 19, 2020
    
    😀
bayphotosbydonna
March 19, 2020

Lovely series in the golden light hour!

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- Reed Andariese
  March 19, 2020
  
  Thanks Donna! The colors made Wood Storks interesting!
  
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