{"id":340,"date":"2009-04-29T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:26:47","slug":"green-jay-heaven-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/04\/29\/green-jay-heaven-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Jay Heaven Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I drove to Edinburg, Texas yesterday.\u00a0 We are\u00a0photographing\u00a0together\u00a0on the Cozad Ranch in Linn, TX\u00a0 on Wednesday (today) and on Thursday.\u00a0 I drop Chris off at the McAllen Airport early on Friday morning.\u00a0 My plans after that are indefinite other than knowing that I have three very long driving days ahead so that I can hook up with\u00a0Chris again in Pelee on the afternoon of May 7th.\u00a0 Below are a few more images from the Ramirez Ranch in Roma, TX.\u00a0<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Images of two songbirds interacting are extremely rare and good ones are rarer still. The bird on our right is a male offering a tidbit to his mate, i.e., courtship feeing. Getting both birds in a pleasing position and on relatively the same plane are among the challenges when trying to create images like this. When I was in the blind at Roma, I had both the 800m and the 500mm set up so that I could quickly go wide when need be as I did here:  Canon 500mm f\/4L IS lens with the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/320 sec. at f\/4. Fill flash with Better Beamer at -2 2\/3 stops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Long-billed Thrasher is another Rio Grande Valley specialty bird. They do not often give up perfect poses but there are lots of them on Roel&#39;s ranch and once in a while you get one that sits still for a few seconds&#8230;. Image created with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/125 sec. at f\/7.1. Fill flash with the Better Beamer at -3 stops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_2_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>These birds are almost as large as they are noisy! In order to fit it into the frame, I had to move to the back of the blind with the 500 and photograph over Chris&#39;s shoulder. I was still too tight and had to add a bit of canvas left and top. Canon 500mm f\/4L IS lens with the EOS-1D MIII body. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/160 sec. at f\/5\/6. Fill flash with the Better Beamer at -2 2\/3 stops. You can learn to add canvas like a pro from our Digital Basics File: <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=252\">https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=252<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The absolute key to creating good images at a feeder set-up is the set-up itself.\u00a0 You will do well to study the image below\u00a0to see what we had in mind.\u00a0\u00a0 You can find detailed info on selecting perches and creating an effective set-up in the Practicalities Chapter in my CD book, &#8220;The Art of Bird Photography II:&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=19\">https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=19tm<\/a>.\u00a0 At 916 pages with 900+ images the all-new continuation of the classic ABP reveals everything that I learned about bird photography and about digital between 1998 and 2006 when the CD book was published.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Once you have all of your perches selected, it can take as long as an hour to create your set-up. We stayed for three days and every ten minutes or so we would leave the blind to change a perch or to tweak this or that&#8230;.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris and I drove to Edinburg, Texas yesterday. We are photographing together on the Cozad Ranch in Linn, TX on Wednesday (today) and on Thursday. I drop Chris off at the McAllen Airport early on Friday morning. My plans after that are indefinite other than knowing that I have three very long driving days ahead [&#8230;]<\/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":[88,35,28,55,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-500mm-f4","category-800mm-f5-6","category-cozad-ranch","category-mkiii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}