{"id":29919,"date":"2015-11-27T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=29919"},"modified":"2015-11-27T14:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T18:54:56","slug":"fire-ice-bosque-being-bosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2015\/11\/27\/fire-ice-bosque-being-bosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire & Ice: Bosque Being Bosque…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

I wrote most of this blog post on Thanksgiving Day after a really short but really wonderful morning photo session. With the heavy cloud cover and the strong east wind, I knew that there was only one spot on the refuge that might offer some quality chances. I had been there the day before and it was dead. But on Thursday morning, it paid off in spades. As I said, it was the only game in town. (See Image #2.) <\/p>\n

I felt much, much better on Thursday, the best I’ve felt in weeks. I had dinner with two friends at the El Camino Restaurant on the main drag in Socorro. My turkey special was quite good, so good that I ate much too much including a small piece of pumpkin pie for dessert.<\/p>\n

How good did I feel? I went back to the refuge and photographed for four hours, almost all Infrared with my Kolari Vision converted 5D Mark II. With lots of dramatic clouds and a swirling flock of blackbirds I had a ton of fun in the sun. The sunset turned out to be a fizzle. <\/p>\n

No dinner for me \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n


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This image was created on the second morning of the first Bosque IPT with the Induro 304L Tripod\/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 200-400mm f\/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender<\/a> (with the internal TC engaged at 420mm) and the Canon EOS 5DS R.<\/a> ISO ?? Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/125 sec. at f\/5.6 in Tv mode. Color temperature: 8000K. <\/p>\n

Center AF point\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure (as is always best when hand holding). Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n

Image #1: Mega-nuclear Sunrise <\/strong><\/h2>\n