Today’s photography practice: chickens.  One of my friends who is currently raising chickens* asked me to photograph them, and I jumped at the chance to try to improve my skills in the color and motion departments.  Motion turned out to be key.

Chickens move.   A lot.  Sort of randomly.  And just when I thought I had one of them in focus, she would turn and run.

Luckily at least Leroy’s tail plumage was pretty enough that this resulted in several not-bad photos:

I finally solved the motion problem by using the “burst” feature, which takes a quick series of photos every time you hit the shutter.  It ended up sounding like a high-fashion shoot:  clickclickclickclickclickclickclick cmon, ladies, show your stuff! clickclickclickclickclickclickclick work it!  work it!  etc.

This resulted in a couple of pretty decent chicken pictures, at least for an amateur.

As it turned out, it was my first paid photo gig:

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* Not the one who named her chickens “Sesame,” “Soup” and “Enchilada.”  Another chicken-raising friend.