I have made almost 8,000 comments on BNP (www.BirdPhotographers.Net<\/a>) over the past year and a half and I am amazed at how often folks with equipment costing more than $5-10,000 are unaware of many of the fundamentals.\u00a0 In an effort to rectify that situation, and to help everyone improve, I will be posting a series of “Back to the Basics and More” pieces here on the BAA-Blog.\u00a0\u00a0 The “and More” tips will be for\u00a0the intermediate and advanced photographers.<\/p>\n We start today with a simple premise:\u00a0 tall skinny subject almost always belong in vertical frames while subjects that are longer than they are tall usually do better\u00a0in a horizontally oriented frame.\u00a0\u00a0When\u00a0 you are handholding your gear, it is a simple matter of turning the camera on one end, framing the image, and pressing the shutter button.\u00a0\u00a0 With telephoto lenses mounted on tripods the lens itself needs to be rotated in the tripod collar when you wish to work in vertical format.\u00a0 Loosen the knob, rotate the lens barrel as needed, and then tighten the knob.\u00a0\u00a0 I use a bubble level in my hot shoe mount to ensure that my images are\u00a0square\u00a0to the world.\u00a0 You can find info on the Kaiser Duplex Spirit Level here: https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/item.aspx?itemid=5<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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| Tripod-mounted Canon 180mm macro lens with the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 320. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/200 sec. at f\/9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n Notice: I\u00a0rotated the\u00a0lens in the\u00a0tripod collar\u00a0so that the long, tall blossom would fit easily into a vertical frame.\u00a0 \u00a0And More:\u00a0 this image was created at 9:45am on a clear morning.\u00a0 To avoid the harsh light I shaded the blossom with a large reflector that I held above my head.\u00a0 As the background was still sunlit I should have added two stops of light to the suggested exposure rather than the one stop that I did add.\u00a0 I lightened the image during the ACR conversion.\u00a0 You can click on the pickerelweed blossom above to see a larger verion of the image.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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