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The Streak Continues: 317<\/h3>\n

The three great folks on the IPT– Deirdre Sheerr-Gross, Catherine Costolo, and Dr. Dennis Cassidy–all repeat clients, were joined for the day by three BIRDS AS ART newbies. At the end of the day, a gushingly happy, hugging, and smiling Laura Benassi thanked me for the three great sessions and told me that she had never ever learned so much in a single day. John McCartney and Sharon Young told me that they had been on numerous photo tours all over the world but that nobody had ever bothered to teach them about histograms, about autofocus, about creating sharp images, and about getting close to birds. Again, there was no time for meditation or for a swim or for ice baths but there is lots of great bird photography and learning going on. This blog post, the 317th in a row, took me about 2 1\/2 hours to prepare. It was published just before 5:30am from my motel room in St. Petersburg Beach, FL. <\/p>\n

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This image was created at 8:39:36am on the morning of 11 October, DAY 2 of the Fort DeSoto October IPT. I used the the hand held Canon EF 200-400mm f\/4L IS USM lens with Internal 1.4x Extender<\/a> (with the internal extender in place at 406mm) and a beta version of the Canon EOS 7D Mark II <\/a>. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop off the light sky 30 degrees above the horizon: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/8 in Manual mode. <\/p>\n

Central sensor\/AI Servo Surround\/Shutter Button AF missed the bird completely and was active at the moment of exposure but resulted in a sharp image. Please don’t ask me how that works. <\/p>\n