{"id":429,"date":"2009-05-18T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:26:47","slug":"more-of-rondeau-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/05\/18\/more-of-rondeau-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"More of Rondeau Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This immature male Baltimore Oriole was photographed with the Canon 500mmm f\/4L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/250 sec. at f\/6.3. Fill flash with Better Beamer at -1 stop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This image was created at a feeder set-up (see below).\u00a0 An orange half (on which the bird was feeding) and the small bit of branch upon which it was impaled, were removed from the image with a series of Quick Masks and some Clone Stamp and Patch Tool work.\u00a0 You can learn to do all of this and more in Digital Basics: https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=252<\/a><\/p>\n

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This female Rose-breasted Grosbeak image was created with the same rig as above. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/640 sec. at f\/6.3. Fill flash at -2 1\/3 stops with Better Beamer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I like a log on the back of the feeder table to prevent the birds from landing there consistently without presenting any photo opps.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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White-breasted Nuthatch. Same gear as above. ISO 640. Evaluative metering +1 1\/3 stops: 1\/200 sec. at f\/8. Fill flash at -2 1\/3 stops with Better Beamer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

When working at\u00a0a feeder set-up on\u00a0cloudy days you are free (as I did here) to photograph birds on natural perches on the periphery of the set-up.\u00a0\u00a0 On sunny days this is much more difficult to do as you would have to move your tripod a good distance in order to attain the proper\u00a0sun angle (with your shadow pointed right at the bird).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This is the campground feeder set-up from my last day at Rondeau. Graham Smith of Toronto whom I met on BPN hired me for a private day. Along with his girlfriend Angie, we had a wonderful day that lasted about 13 hours! This image was created with the Canon 24-105mm IS L zoom lens at 24mm.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Note the\u00a0Blue Jay landing on the spike perch and the\u00a0male Rose-breasted Grosbeak atop the small log on the left\u00a0side of the large log.\u00a0 You can learn a ton about feeder set-ups by studying this image closely.\u00a0 (As always, click on the images to enlarge them.)\u00a0\u00a0 And you can learn a lot more on creating feeder set-ups in the Practicalities chaper in my e-book, “The Art of Bird Photography II” (ABP II, 916 pages on CD only):\u00a0 https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quiz:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. What are the plastic bags for?<\/li>\n
  2. Why the logs on the ground?<\/li>\n
  3. What is the vertical perch on the left for?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    (Post your answers in comments please).<\/p>\n

    Today, I am taking my 86 year old Mom back to the neighborhood where she was born in downtown Brooklynnear\u00a0DeKalb Avenue and Ashland Place.\u00a0\u00a0 Then we will take a drive down memory lane (in this case Flatbush Avenue) and visit the old neighborhood and the house where I was raised:\u00a0 2046 East 38th St in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn.\u00a0 Our phone number was NI(ghtingale) 5-7760.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No area code.\u00a0 Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ngg_shortcode_4_placeholder This immature male Baltimore Oriole was photographed with the Canon 500mmm f\/4L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/250 sec. at f\/6.3. Fill flash with Better Beamer at -1 stop. <\/p>\n

    This image was created at a feeder set-up (see below). An orange half […]<\/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":[88,35,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-500mm-f4","category-mkiii","category-rondeau-rocks","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}