{"id":23803,"date":"2014-11-03T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T11:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=23803"},"modified":"2014-11-05T06:14:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T10:14:30","slug":"blood-work-and-road-kill-head-hunting-and-one-for-the-7d-ii-and-the-f4-super-tele2x-iii-doubters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2014\/11\/03\/blood-work-and-road-kill-head-hunting-and-one-for-the-7d-ii-and-the-f4-super-tele2x-iii-doubters\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Work and Road Kill, Head Hunting, and one for the 7D II and the f\/4 Super-tele\/2X III Doubters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Streak Continues: 338<\/h3>\n

On Sunday morning at DeSoto, Greg Gulbransen and I froze. It was 51 degrees, the coldest morning of the year by far, and with the wind chill it felt like the mid-40s. We dressed a lot warmer than we did on Saturday. With a much better wind direction–northeast, we were confident of having a great morning. The only problem was that with tide an hour later, the day an hour earlier (fall back), and a different wind, we effectively went from the high tide with more than a thousand birds on Saturday to low tide with about seven birds on Sunday. You gotta love bird photography. Greg went home very happy as we did find a few decent subjects and lots of great educational situations. <\/p>\n

I was home in time for the NFL games, took a short nap, and totally couch-potatoed it for the rest of the day. I never downloaded my images or even turned on a computer. I was sound asleep in bed by 8:30pm. This blog post, the 338th in a row, took me about 2 1\/2 hours to prepare. It was published from my home at Indian Lake Estates at about 6:30am. <\/p>\n

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This image was created in early morning light at 7:52am on the clear morning of 17 October on the main drag at Indian Lake Estates, FL. I used the Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens<\/a> (hand held at 105mm) and a beta version of the Canon EOS 7D Mark II <\/a>. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero: 1\/320 sec. at f\/8 in Av mode. AWB. <\/p>\n

Three sensors to the right of the central sensor\/Rear Focus\/AI Servo Expand on the Raccoon’s neck were active at the moment of exposure. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n