IPT Student Getting Too Good? Part II with Image Critiques

Coastal Brown Bear Cub with salmon sliver, Geographic Harbor, Katmai National Park, AK. Image courtesy of and copyright 2011: Clemens van der Werf. This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 1000. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/800 sec. at f/5.6 in Manual mode. [...]

Barrow Tundra March & More…

This drake King Eider image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon 800 f/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative Metering +1 stop: 1/640 sec. at f/9.

On Wednesday, two days after my 64th birthday, we met a nice Swedish couple at the end of the new [...]

Spectacled Eider and BAA Back In Business

This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon 800 f/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative Metering at zero: 1/250 sec. at f/13. This image shows that depth-of-field with long effective focal lengths is tiny even when stopped down.

The sun does not set here in [...]

Welcome to Barrow and Verizon Saga Continued....

This image was created with the handheld Canon 800 f/5.6L IS lens with the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 400. Evaluative Metering +1 stop: 1/1000 sec. at f/7.1. I was sitting with the lens supported on my left knee.

I arrived in Barrow, AK just after 7pm on Friday afternoon, July 11 after arising in [...]