{"id":18213,"date":"2014-02-02T06:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=18213"},"modified":"2014-08-18T04:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:10:57","slug":"the-before-and-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2014\/02\/02\/the-before-and-the-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Before and the Aftermath…"},"content":{"rendered":"

And the Streak Continues<\/h3>\n

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Thanks and enjoy today’s blog post! This one took about 3 hours to assemble. I am feeling pretty good today with just a bit of hemming and hawing. We leave in 30 minutes for our last morning IPT session. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This displaying Great Blue Heron image was created with the with the Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM zoom lens<\/a>, the Canon 1.4x EF Extender III (teleconverter)<\/a> (hand held at 280mm), and the Canon EOS-1D X<\/a>. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2 stops as framed: 1\/160 sec. at f\/5.6 in Manual mode. <\/p>\n

61-Point AI Servo\/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure; three sensors in the upper left corner of the vertical AF array just caught the top of the bird’s bill. See the BreezeBrowswer screen capture below for the whole story on 61-Point AF. Click here<\/a> if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.<\/p>\n