{"id":30808,"date":"2016-01-08T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=30808"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:06:28","slug":"sometimes-when-its-supposed-to-suck-it-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2016\/01\/08\/sometimes-when-its-supposed-to-suck-it-doesnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes When It’s Supposed to Suck, It Doesn’t…"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

We met our San Diego IPT group last night at the introductory Meet and Greet. It looks as if it will be a great group. And best of all, the weather is improving. We meet the group at 6am for our first crack at the pelicans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created at La Jolla, CA with the Induro GIT 304L tripod\/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM lens<\/a> with the Canon EOS 5DS R DSLR <\/a>. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop as framed: 1\/160 sec. at f\/5.6. AWB. On-camera fill flash at -3 stops with the Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT<\/a><\/p>\n

Center AF point\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF on the top knot and re-compose. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. <\/p>\n

Brown Pelican, Pacific race in breeding plumage, back of neck abstract<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Sometimes When It is Supposed to Suck, It Doesn’t…<\/h3>\n

Weather forecast for San Diego, 7am, Thursday January 7, 2015: 80% chance of torrential downpours with high winds. <\/p>\n

What to do? Head to the cliffs of course. It had poured twice between 4 and 6am when I left the hotel. To get to my rental car, I had to wade through an eight-inch deep puddle. It was drizzling when I arrived. I scoped out the situation and found that there were no birds in their usual spot. But there were several hundred roosting nearby. The next thing that I know good friend Patrick Sparkman materialized right behind me. Long story short: we had one of our best-ever mornings at the cliffs. And that included lots of neat flight photography with our 100-400 IIs. <\/p>\n

So what are the morals of the story? <\/p>\n