{"id":3265,"date":"2010-12-03T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T03:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:18:23","slug":"which-image-do-you-like-best-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2010\/12\/03\/which-image-do-you-like-best-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Image Do You Like Best, and Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Western Gull wing stretch, La Jolla, CA. With the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 370mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/1600 sec. at f\/5.6 set manually. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Which Image Do You Like Best, and Why? <\/h2>\n

Three images of adult Western Gull, each completely different. Which one do you prefer? And why? Which is the best image?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Western Gull landing, La Jolla, CA. With the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 400mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/6.3 set manually. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Note that I used the same rig to create all three of these images. I will be ordering my very own 70-200 2.8 II from Canon on Monday \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Western Gull preening, La Jolla, CA. With the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 400mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 1600. Evaluative metering +2 2\/3 stops: 1\/1250 sec. at f\/5.6. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

In the image above, the high ISO performance of the MIV was excellent. If you are mystified by the varying exposure compensations for the birds in the sun versus the bird in the pre-dawn light you need to get yourself a copy of The Art of Bird Photography II<\/a> (916 pages on CD only) and study the Exposure Simplified section….<\/p>\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 EF Teleconverter 2X II<\/a>
\nCanon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera body<\/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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Western Gull wing stretch, La Jolla, CA. With the Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 370mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/1600 sec. at f\/5.6 set manually. <\/p>\n

Which Image Do You Like Best, and Why? <\/p>\n

Three images of […]<\/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":[89,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-89","category-educational","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","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=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}