{"id":3186,"date":"2010-11-21T00:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:16:05","slug":"bosque-is-rocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/11\/21\/bosque-is-rocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Bosque Is Rocking!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This zoom blur was created with the tripod-mounted 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero: 1\/3 sec. and f\/18. (Zoomed from long to wide.) To learn to make images like this plus everything that you wanted to know about creating pleasing blurs but were afraid to ask, check out: “A Guide to Pleasing Blurs”<\/a> by Denise Ippolito and yours truly. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Bosque Is Rocking!<\/h2>\n

When I spoke to Jim Neiger last week, he said, “It’s the worst year ever, worse than last year.” I have been hearing the dire predictions for more than a decade but in recent years they have proven to be true. But this year, I knew that there was corn. Today, the first day of the 2010 The Complete Bosque Experience IPT, was one of the best days I have had here in 16 years. We started with a spectacular sunrise, enjoyed great blackbird and geese blast-offs, had some great incoming flight photography with single geese, and finished with a spectacular sunset filled with birds. Whew. <\/p>\n

Congrats to the Bosque management team for getting it right: this year is Bosque like it used to be! And for the third straight year Gary Roleuau and his team of volunteer Animals did a great job of opening many strategically placed viewing windows. Thanks a stack guys and gals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This blackbird motion blur was created with the Canon 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens and the 1.4X II teleconverter (hand held at 280mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 200. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops: 1\/8 sec. and f\/22 set manually. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This Snow Goose blast-off blur was created with the Canon 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens hand held at 80mm with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 200. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/13 sec. at f\/18 in Tv Mode. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This banking Snow Goose image was created with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the sky: 1\/2000 sec. and f\/9 set manually. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This landing Snow Goose image was created with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the sky: 1\/2000 sec. and f\/8 set manually. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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This sunset silhouette with killer cloud image was created with the Canon 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens hand held at 88mm with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops: 1\/500 sec. at f\/3.2. This was created at one of my favorite sunset spots, a spot that few serious photographers ever visit. To make the most of your Bosque visit get your self a copy of the Bosque Site Guide<\/a>–the next best thing to being on an IPT. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Shopper’s Guide<\/h2>\n

Here is a list of the gear that I used to create the images above. <\/p>\n

Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens<\/a>
\nCanon 800mm f\/5.L IS lens<\/a>
\nCanon EF Teleconverter 1.4X II<\/a>
\nCanon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera body<\/a><\/p>\n

And from the BAA On-line Store:<\/p>\n

Gitzo 3530 LS Tripod<\/a>
\nMongoose M3.6 Tripod Head<\/a><\/p>\n

If you are considering the purchase of a major piece of photographic gear be it a new camera, a long lens, a tripod or a head, or some accessories be sure to check out our complete Shopper’s Guide.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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This zoom blur was created with the tripod-mounted 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at zero: 1\/3 sec. and f\/18. (Zoomed from long to wide.) To learn to make images like this plus everything that you wanted to know about creating pleasing blurs but were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89,72,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-bosque-2010","category-bosque-del-apache","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}