{"id":3736,"date":"2011-01-19T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=3736"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T19:27:48","slug":"winning-the-lottery-bookmark-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/01\/19\/winning-the-lottery-bookmark-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Lottery & Bookmark This Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This Brandt’s Cormorant image was created with the handheld Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8 L IS zoom lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 292mm) and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 50. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/15 sec. at f\/10. Lens micro-adjustment -2. AI Servo AF. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Winning the Lottery<\/h3>\n

After doing the introductory slide program last night for the San Diego IPT group and several invited guests, we took a look at the 701 images that I created yesterday morning at La Jolla. All groups love to watch me edit, to learn why I kept two images while deleting 11 similar images. I had created about 70 intentionally blurred cormorant images and while reviewing the first 60 or so we had selected about 4 potential keepers. When I hit the forward button in the BreezeBrowser slide show that I use for editing a day’s take everyone agreed that this was the winner by far and that there was not need to keep the others. <\/p>\n

That’s how it goes when trying to create pleasingly blurred images. In A Guide to Pleasing Blurs<\/a> (which I co-authored with Denise Ippolito) I wrote “Creating a killer pleasing blur is like winning the lottery; it takes a lot of tickets to come up with a winner.” As we discuss in the guide, it pays to vary your shutter speeds. I created all of the images in the series at shutter speeds between 1\/4 and 1\/30 sec. The closer a bird is to you and the faster it is flying or flapping, the greater the apparent blur at a given shutter speed. If you take a look at the focal length for this image you will see that it flew by at close range. Thus the surreal blur. <\/p>\n

Some folks hate all blurs. For some they are an acquired taste. Love it or hate it, let me know your thoughts on this one, good or bad \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

Bookmark This Site<\/h3>\n

Serious photographers wake early and stay out late. They are quite concerned about light. They study the natural history of their subjects and realize the influence of the winds and tides on the birds and animals and the implications for their photography. I am sure that most of you have a favorite weather web site; I use Weather.com<\/a>. Years ago I discovered SaltwaterTides.Com. Here is a link to the home page<\/a>. And here<\/a> is a link to the page that I used to plan this IPT. <\/p>\n

The site provide data for high and low tides, the height of each tide, the time of sunrise, sunset, moon rise, and moon set as well as the phase of the moon for each location. All in one convenient spots and all available via a click or two. Do remember to bookmark this valuable site. <\/p>\n

Shopper’s Guide<\/h2>\n

Below is a list of the gear that I used to create the image above. Thanks a stack to all who have used the Shopper’s Guide links to purchase their gear as a thank you for all the free information that we bring you on the Blog and in the Bulletins.<\/p>\n

Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens.<\/a> Man, I am loving this lens on my shoulder with the 2X teleconverter.
\nCanon EF Teleconverter 2X II.<\/a> This 2X is currently being replaced by the EF 2X III TC<\/a>.
\nCanon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera bod.y<\/a> And this is the very best professional digital camera body that I have even used.. <\/p>\n

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

Delkin 32gb e-Film Pro Compact Flash Card.<\/a> Fast and dependable.<\/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 Brandt’s Cormorant image was created with the handheld Canon EF 70-200mm f\/2.8 L IS zoom lens with the 2X II TC (hand held at 292mm) and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 50. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/15 sec. at f\/10. Lens micro-adjustment -2. AI Servo AF. <\/p>\n

Winning the Lottery <\/p>\n

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