{"id":1012,"date":"2010-03-13T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:24:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:24:46","slug":"midway-continued-creative-visionred-tailed-tropicbird-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/03\/13\/midway-continued-creative-visionred-tailed-tropicbird-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Midway Continued: Creative Vision\/Red-tailed Tropicbird Style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC (handheld at 135mm) and the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 250. I set the brilliant white exposure for this ISO manually: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/6.3 and confirmed it via a histogram check.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

There are many, many thousands of Red-Tailed Tropicbirds on Midway and they are relatively easy to photograph in March.\u00a0 Their courtships displays (as above) are spectacular.\u00a0 And many pairs are beginning to nest (see the images below).\u00a0 As always, you can click on each image to see a larger sharper version.<\/p>\n

As you view the three images in this post you will be struck by how different each is.\u00a0\u00a0I used a different focal length and a different technique for\u00a0each of the three photographs and as you can see, each is unique and\u00a0each image fulfilled my photographic vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created with the handheld 70-200mm f\/4 IS lens with a 25mm Extension tube, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS -1D MIV. ISO 250. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/320 sec. at f\/10.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

As you might imagine, these birds are\u00a0quite\u00a0relaxed on the nest.\u00a0 When doing close-up work, an extension tube can help you to\u00a0focus\u00a0closer by\u00a0reducing the minumum focusing distance of your lens.\u00a0 When using an extension tube with a teleconverter, the usual course of action is to place the TC on the lens with the tube behind it.\u00a0 I tried that but could not focus as closely as I wanted to to achieve my photographic vision.\u00a0\u00a0So while lying on the ground I switched the\u00a0order around mounting the tube on the lens\u00a0with the TC behind it.\u00a0\u00a0This allowed me to focus even closer.\u00a0 The problem is that with the tube on the lens and the TC behind it you lose autofocus so I needed to\u00a0focus manually and use my elbows as a\u00a0sort of\u00a0bi-pod to\u00a0keep the lens absolutely still.\u00a0 I simply listened for the focus confirmation beep\u00a0\u00a0and depressed the shutter button when I heard it.\u00a0 Voila: creative vision achieved!<\/p>\n

This is one of the many hundreds of techniques covered in “The Art of Bird Photography II” (916 pages on CD only): https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=32<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Be sure to check out our combo offer:\u00a0 purcahse the original ABP along with the CD book and save $10.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Canon 17-40mm zoom lens handheld at 40mm with the EOS-1D MIV. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/160 sec. at f\/4 set manually and confirmed via histogram check.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Above,\u00a0I wanted to create a bird-scape that gave the viewer a sense of the nesting habitat of this species so I chose the wide angle zoom lens that I borrowed from Canon Professional Services for this trip to achieve my creative vision.\u00a0 While this image is not done in typical BIRDS AS ART style, I feel that it is quite effective.\u00a0 Do note that the subject has been placed in the traditional rule of thirds position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder Canon 70-200mm f\/4L IS lens with the 1.4X II TC (handheld at 135mm) and the EOS-1D MIV. ISO 250. I set the brilliant white exposure for this ISO manually: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/6.3 and confirmed it via a histogram check. <\/p>\n

There are many, many thousands of Red-Tailed Tropicbirds on Midway and they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-ipt-reports","category-midway-2010","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}